Kate Laster is an artist, educator & critical historian.

Born 1991 in Anchorage (Dena'ina land) and raised all over Alaska from the arctic to the archipelago; a sense of place is key to their art practice as a diasporic Jew. 

She received a BA at Evergreen State College in 2015 and in 2019 she received a MA+MFA in History & Theory of Contemporary Art and Studio Art with an emphasis in Printmaking at SFAI. 

Their thesis, GENTRIFICATION OF THE DEAD: How The Displacement Of Cemeteries Paved The Way For Rethinking Monuments In San Francisco, was a site specific praxis of art-making and research.

Laster has worked with Woosh Kinaadeiyí, Jewish Voices for Peace, The Coalition on Homelessness, SF Poster Syndicate, California Jewish Artists for Palestine, Palace of Trash, and with her collaborator, Steph Kudisch as Hevra Kadisha, an anti-zionist collective.  

Laster focuses on accessibility and dismantling structural inequity in the arts through donation-based art history classes that she creates original curriculums for. They also teach at San Francisco Center for the Book, have been a studio assistant at Hospitality House’s Community Arts Program and currently works at NIAD as a studio facilitator & Personal Support Specialist.

She has been an artist-in-residence at many Califonian studios such as: In Cahoots, Chalk Hill, Open Windows Cooperative as well as Vermont Studio Center, Cisco Home of the Brave in Utah, and Pillow Fort Art Center in New York.

Laster’s artist books are represented by Booklyn.