Michael Holman

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

Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World

The Hip Hop Years

Graffiti Rock

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

Basquiat: Rage to Riches

Downtown '81

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

TV Party

All Movies (13)

• Jean-Michel Basquiat, artiste absolu2022 · as Self - Musician, hip-hop historian, co-founder of the group Gray
• Sk8r Grrl2021
• Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat2018 · as Self
• Basquiat: Rage to Riches2017 · as Self (Writer, filmmaker)
• Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio2014 · as Himself
• Basquiat, Une Vie2010 · as Himself
• Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child2010 · as Self
• Downtown Calling2009 · as Self
• TV Party2005 · as Self
• And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop2004 · as Self
• Downtown '812001 · as Michael
• Michael Holman Presents The New York City Breakers Volume 21997
• Fillmore1972 · as Himself - Performer

All TV Shows (5)

• Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World2023 · as Self
• My Coolest Years2004 · as Himself
• And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop2004 · as Self
• The Hip Hop Years1999 · as Self
• Graffiti Rock1984 · as Himself - Host