Biography

Alastair Laas is a British artist (b.1982, Black Country, England).

Recent exhibitions and projects include Taking Time: Flatland Projects (Bexhill, UK, 2025), The Digital Quilt - Art In Flux: INDEXprojects (London, UK, 2020), Dear My Little Prince: Korean Museum of Contemporary Art (Seoul, S. Korea, 2018 & 2019), Aesthetica Art Prize: York Art Gallery (York, UK, 2019), (H)AKT - Art & Haktivism: Ugly Duck (London, UK), Mayfair Fringe Festival (London, UK, 2018), Overpr!nt: Le Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image Imprimée (Liège, Belgium, 2018), Metaphors & Spatiality: Sichuan University Fine Arts Institute (Chengdu), Wuhouci Gallery (Chengdu), and Studio Complex: Tate Modern (London, UK, 2017 & 2018). Commissioned works for clients such as Google, Arnolfini, Diageo, Mercedes-Benz, HRH The Queen, Sky, Coca-Cola, and Red Bull.

Residency with Arebyte Gallery in London (2018), Artist to Watch by ArtConnect (2022), and Top 100 Artist for the Aesthetica Art Prize (2019). David Ward International Award for Innovation recipient in 2018 and shortlisted for Best Moving Image at the Drum Awards (2015). Completed the De La Warr Pavilion x Flatland Studio Programme in 2025, and shortlisted for the Churchill Fellowship (2025), trustee position at Spike Island and the High Weald Public Art Commission. He was also a finalist for the Artquest SEED Award and the Solo Award at Chiara Williams Contemporary (2018). Laas is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London (2026).