Kate Laster

Kate Laster's practice explores the endurance of grief and the elastic capacity of people. Her unorthodox bookforms contain a visual language of non-linear poetry honoring unseen emotional labor and the necessity of collective care.

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. She teaches at San Francisco Center for the Book, has been a studio assistant at Hospitality House’s Community Arts Program and currently works at NIAD Art Center as a studio facilitator & personal support specialist. 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.