Door From the Apartment I Was Evicted From (detail) 2026
GREENVILLE
TSA Summer Artist Residency
Aug - Sep, 2026
Opening Reception: Fri, Sep 4
Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Greenville is thrilled to announce our 2026 Artist in Residence: Mike Howat!
Howat is a painter based in Greenville, SC whose work focuses on urbanization, Americana, and collective memory through the lens of vernacular architectural forms. In his observational works on constructed and sculptural panels, buildings serve as vessels and maps to examine the tensions between regional identity, personal histories, and the evolution of place.
Howat earned his B.F.A. from the New Hampshire Institute of Art and is an incoming M.F.A. candidate at Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has exhibited nationally, with recent shows at Cove Street Arts (Portland, ME), Carrie Secrist Gallery (Chicago), Nucleus Portland, and Talon Gallery (Portland, OR). His practice has been informed by residencies focusing on site-specific works, including a long-term residency at Kimball Jenkins School of Art and as the 2022 artist-in-residence at Gallery 263 in Cambridge, MA.
As an artist-curator, Howat began curating in 2018 and has since collaborated on exhibitions with Rochester Museum of Fine Arts and other spaces. From 2023–2025, he co-owned PILLAR Gallery + Projects in Concord, NH, an artist-run space fostering emerging and mid-career contemporary art in the Northeast region. Since his move to South Carolina, Howat works out of OYE Studios.
Our current Artist-In-Residence, Mike Howat, is in the middle of integrating his paintings and drawings into a more expansive installation that includes sculptural forms and projection mapping—starting with these dormers—as well as some large-scaled suspended drawings.
Mike Howat is a painter working between NH and Greenville, SC. His work investigates themes of urbanization, Americana, and collective memory, often through the lens of architectural forms. Buildings and built environments act as vessels in his paintings—conduits for exploring regional identity, personal history, and the evolution of place.
As an artist-curator, Howat began curating in 2018 at Kimball Jenkins and has since collaborated on exhibitions with the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts and other venues. In 2023, he co-founded PILLAR Gallery + Projects in Concord, NH, fostering contemporary art programming in the region.
He’s working Saturdays 11-5PM! Visitors should stop by and say hello.