
Michael Holman
Department: Acting
Biography
An influential observer of popular culture and entertainment, Michael Holman is a filmmaker, artist, writer, and musician, based in New York City. A pioneer in the Downtown New York Art Scene and Uptown Hip Hop Scene, Holman founded the band Gray - an industrial atmospheric, noise group - with painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, as well as created and produced the first Hip Hop television show, Graffiti Rock in 1984
Known For

Basquiat, Une Vie
2010

Jean-Michel Basquiat, artiste absolu
2022

Michael Holman Presents The New York City Breakers Volume 2
1997

Basquiat: Rage to Riches
2017

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
2010

Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio
2014

Downtown '81
2001

TV Party
2005

Downtown Calling
2009

Sk8r Grrl
2021

Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
2018

And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop
2004

Fillmore
1972

The Hip Hop Years
1999

Graffiti Rock
1984

My Coolest Years
2004

Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
2023