Howard earned a BFA from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and completed his graduate degree in painting at the University of Cincinnati. He has had solo exhibitions in Inova; the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee; the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design; the Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle; the Association for Visual Artists, Chattanooga; Pierce College, Lakewood, Washington; and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Recently his work was included in exhibitions at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art and the Haggerty Museum of Art, and a solo exhibition at Prographica KDR Gallery in Seattle, WA.