Kim Banister draws large scale, expressive figures. Her drawings, using charcoal, powered pigment and linseed oil, are gestural with single figures or multiple figures entwined. Banister has shown her work nationally. She has been the gallery director at Loyola University Maryland since September 2014. Previously, she worked at Harrisburg Area Community College, Harrisburg, PA, teaching and running the gallery.

Kim Banister received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Cincinnati and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dickinson College. In 2012, she was awarded a fellowship at the AAMG/Kellogg Academic Museum and Gallery Leadership Seminar at Northwestern University.