MC Daubendiek (b. 2002, Nebraska) is a multidisciplinary artist and curator. She employs various strategies, including sculpture, installation, video, photography, drawing and performance to make work that explores the questions and conditions that come with having a body. In her practice, she hopes to connect somatic experiences with something greater. Her work processes the absurdities, voyeurism, and violence of daily life that rise from how we see each other and interpret bodies. Her goal is to find a balance between the chaos and control of the self and one’s own image.  As a curator, MC is interested in what already exists. She believes the most meaningful ideas respect the histories of places and people, and her projects seek to fill in gaps between people and systems in order to create a more accessible art world. Her research involves conversation, physicality, and observation.

She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts and Art History from the George Washington University (2025), where she received the Luther Rice Undergraduate Research Fellowship and the Outstanding Senior in Art History Prize. MC’s most recent exhibition and curatorial project was BIS (Bemis Intern Show) at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE in August of 2025. After graduation, she began a career as a professional volleyball player in South America and is currently playing in Europe. Her time as an athlete living abroad are research for her work, as she maintains her creative practices and aims to go to graduate school and work in the arts and higher education within the next five years.