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Michael Thomas Holman is a New York-based artist, writer, filmmaker and musician.[1] He is also an early 1980s downtown scene subculturalist and creator of the Hip Hop music program Graffiti Rock. Holman is a founding member, along with Jean-Michel Basquiat, of the experimental band Gray.[2]
In 2016, Holman's archives were acquired by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.[3] Additional Holman artifacts were acquired by the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Holman has performed his Confessions Of A Subculturalist spoken word performance at the Bruno Walter Auditorium in Lincoln Center, and his sound and video The Subjective Gaze, Parts 1&2 performance at New York City's Museum of Modern Art.[citation needed]
Holman wrote and directed Nile Rodgers' We Are Family Foundation 10th Anniversary Gala and the Tommy Boy Music 30th Anniversary Performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival.[4]
- ^ "With East Village exhibition, the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat comes home". PBS NewsHour. May 6, 2019. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- ^ Boch, Richard (2017). The Mudd Club. Port Townsend, WA: Feral House. p. 82. ISBN 978-1-62731-051-2. OCLC 972429558.
- ^ "The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Acquires Michael Holman Archive, First Hip-Hop Collection in its Holdings". The New York Public Library. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ^ Black Art Story, Blackartstory org (2020-08-14). "Profile: Michael Holman". Black Art Story. Retrieved 2023-01-28.