Michael Bouhanna is a digital art and NFT auction specialist who serves as VP, Head of Digital Art and Contemporary Art Specialist at Sotheby's. Michael Bouhanna's Twitter Score is 261 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #1,468 (top 0.5%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Michael Bouhanna has played a central role in Sotheby's expansion into digital art and NFT sales. The auction house's first NFT sale, The Fungible Collection by Pak, yielded over $16.8 million across two days in April 2021. Later that year, the Ape In! sale of 107 Bored Ape NFTs brought in $24.4 million, with Michael Bouhanna identified at the time as co-head of digital art sales at Sotheby's. In October 2024, the New York Post quoted Michael Bouhanna, in his capacity as head of NFT and digital art at Sotheby's, commenting on Ai-Da's AI God work featured in a Sotheby's Digital Art Sale.
Michael Bouhanna also collects digital art personally, as noted in his own bio, and has been part of Sotheby's broader move into crypto, which per the Financial Times included accepting cryptocurrency for selected physical artworks and later accepting Ether and Bitcoin for an auction. Michael Bouhanna's account, @michaelbouhanna, has 34,824 followers as of July 2026 and 3,749 posts. Michael Bouhanna has been mentioned by 121 accounts a total of 229 times.
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