Kate Laster (she/they) is an artist, educator & critical historian.

Born in Anchorage (Dena'ina land), Alaska, 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 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 the Letterform Archive, Jewish Voice for Peace, The Coalition on Homelessness, Gay Shame, SF Poster Syndicate, California Jewish Artists for Palestine, Palace of Trash, and with their collaborator, Steph Kudisch as Hevra Kadisha and Clear as Schmutz Press. 

They teach at San Francisco Center for the Book, have been a studio assistant at Hospitality House’s Community Arts Program and currently work at NIAD as a studio facilitator & Personal Support Specialist. 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, 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.