MC Daubendiek (b. 2002, Nebraska) is a multidisciplinary artist and curator. She works in video, photography, performance, sculpture, drawing and painting. Her work collaborates with space and explores the questions and conditions that come with having a body with an emphasis on empathy. In her practice, she hopes to provoke connections between individual somatic experiences and “the other.” Her work processes the absurdity, voyeurism, and violence of daily life that are born 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 (August, 2025). She played Division I volleyball for GW and pursued the game professionally in Peru and France after graduation. Now, in Steamboat, she will continue her studio practice, working towards graduate school.