Kate Laster (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural worker from Anchorage, Alaska (Dena'ina land) now based in Oakland (Ohlone land).

Laster looks at the intersection of disability, economic justice and collective care. Their papercut practice connects graffiti stencils with painting and printmaking to make unique bookforms and agitprop multiples. Laster 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 the San Francisco Art Institute. Their master 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.

They teach at San Francisco Center for the Book, have been a studio assistant at Hospitality House’s Community Arts Program, a studio facilitator & personal support specialist at NIAD Art Center and currently work at Creative Growth as a substitute studio facilitator. Laster focuses on accessibility and dismantling structural inequity in the arts through donation-based art history classes that she creates original curriculums for.

Laster's artwork has been shown in Japan, Korea, Canada and Germany as well as at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum in Santa Barbara and the Tenderloin Museum in San Francisco. They have been an artist-in-residence at many programs in California such as: In Cahoots, Kala Art Institute, 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.

Her artwork and organizing has recently been featured in Hyperallergic, Hey Alma and KQED. Laster’s artist books are represented by Booklyn.