Michael Holman

Acting • New York, USA

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

6.7

Downtown '81

2001

Michael Holman Presents The New York City Breakers Volume 2

1997

Sk8r Grrl

2021

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Filmography

2023
Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the WorldTV
Self • 4 episodes
★ 7.0
2022
Jean-Michel Basquiat, artiste absoluFilm
Self - Musician, hip-hop historian, co-founder of the group Gray
★ 6.0
2021
Sk8r GrrlFilm
2018
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel BasquiatFilm
Self
★ 6.8
2017
Basquiat: Rage to RichesFilm
Self (Writer, filmmaker)
★ 6.0
2014
Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC StudioFilm
Himself
★ 6.5
2010
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant ChildFilm
Self
★ 7.2
2010
Basquiat, Une VieFilm
Himself
★ 8.0
2009
Downtown CallingFilm
Self
2005
TV PartyFilm
Self
★ 8.0
2004
My Coolest YearsTV
Himself • 1 episodes
★ 7.0
2004
And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-HopTV
Self • 5 episodes
2001
Downtown '81Film
Michael
★ 6.7
1999
The Hip Hop YearsTV
Self • 1 episodes
★ 7.0
1997
Michael Holman Presents The New York City Breakers Volume 2Film
1984
Graffiti RockTV
Himself - Host • 1 episodes
★ 7.1
1972
FillmoreFilm
Himself - Performer
★ 7.0