Martin Holman is a British art historian and writer on modern and contemporary visual art. He has a special interest in post-war Italian art and has been closely involved with exhibitions in Britain and Italy of work by Giorgio Griffa, Pino Pascali, Michelangelo Pistoletto (all at Camden Arts Centre), Paolo Icaro (Studio G7, Bologna), Gianfranco Zappettini (Mazzoleni, London and Turin) and Gilberto Zorio (Milton Keynes Gallery).
He publishes regularly in exhibition catalogues and in the national and art press, most frequently in Art Monthly, Burlington Magazine and Sculpture. He is the author of comprehensive monographs about Terry Setch, Graham Crowley and Richard Rome (all published by Lund Humphries), Barbara Nicholls (Black Dog) and Gianfranco Zappettini (Skira).
He has organised permanent and five temporary art commissions in London and, more recently, exhibitions in west Cornwall where he is now based. Also in Cornwall he writes profiles and reviews about the region’s leading contemporary artists in the Cornishman, Drift magazine and St Ives Times & Echo.
During his career, Martin Holman has worked at the Whitechapel Art Gallery and Camden Arts Centre, as an independent consultant, and in book publishing, printing and bookselling. He has been chairman of Milton Keynes Gallery, trustee of Wimbledon Civic Theatre Trust, governor of Wimbledon School of Art and advisory board member of the Drawing Room, London.
