He holds an MFA from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX and an MA from the National Academy of the Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria. Chinov has exhibited at various venues and has received a number of awards including the Critic’s Choice Award at the Dallas Contemporary Art Center, publications in the International Drawing Exhibition-in-Print at Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, and fellowships at the Jentel Artist Residency Program in Wyoming, Santa Fe Art Institute in New Mexico, and Culture House Babayan in Turkey.