Michael Holman

Birthplace: New York, USA

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
Beat Street
And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop
Downtown '81
TV Party
Basquiat: Rage to Riches
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Downtown Calling
Vampire Lestat

Top Movie Credits

Basquiat Second Unit Director
Beat Street Producer
Basquiat: Rage to Riches Self (Writer, filmmaker)