Thuto Durkac-Somo

Thuto Durkac-Somo is a writer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. He works as an AV technician at Pratt Institute Libraries and has served as an AV coordinator at the Museum of Arts and Design. Durkac-Somo completed his master’s degree in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Much of his writing concerns architecture, art, and technology’s ways of seeing. His films have investigated architecture and race. Durkac-Somo has published articles through the Canadian Centre for Architecture, The Avery Review, Take Shape magazine, and Real Life magazine. In 2022, he was selected as one of the participants in the Canadian Centre for Architecture’s Emerging Curator Residency Program. In 2019, Durkac-Somo was accepted into the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program led by Meleko Mokgosi, Avi Alpert, and Anthea Behm. During the summer of 2019, Durkac-Somo participated in IMPAKT's Full Spectrum Curatorship.