Mike Howat is a New Hampshire-based painter and educator. His work explores themes of urbanization, Americana and collective memory.

Since earning his B.F.A. in 2014, he has exhibited nationally including exhibitions with Nucleus Portland (PDX), Cove Street Arts, Greenhut Galleries, Talon Gallery (PDX), Carrie Secrist Gallery (Chicago), Rochester Museum of Fine Arts among other spaces.

Howat was the 2022 artist-in-residence at Gallery 263 (Cambridge, MA) and the longterm artist-in-residence at Kimball Jenkins School of Art from 2016-2020, where he teaches classes and workshops in painting, printmaking and drawing. Since 2020, he has taught at AVA Gallery & Art Center, where he is the program coordinator of ArtReach, an interactive program which provides studio visits, interviews, and exhibition tours with artists and curators across the region.

As an artist-curator, Howat started his first curatorial projects in 2018 with Figuratively Speaking, an exhibition of emerging and mid-career abstract artists in the Northeast, and was a curatorial advisor for the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts. In 2021, he co-curated additional exhibitions at Kimball Jenkins School of Art including SALON 2021 and SALON 2022, exhibitions which featured over 140 artists collectively.