Mike Perry (artist)

He works in a variety of media including illustration, animation, painting, type, magazines, videos, public art, sculpture, and books.

After he was rejected for an internship at the Walker Art Center, the museum's design director, Andrew Blauvelt, wrote a note suggesting he apply for a job at Urban Outfitters.

Excited about the publication and wanting to turn it into a bigger, communal and free event,[7] he developed "an unprecedented" and "unlikely" three month long,[8] pop-up community art space in a 7,000-square-foot warehouse in Crown Heights.

[9] Perry noted that his inspiration for the project, run by volunteers, came from the fact that "he doesn’t see a lot of support or room for work like his in the galleries and institutions of today’s art world"; Perry "connected that attitude to an absence of more zine, print, and t-shirt shops — alternative spaces, essentially, that function so often as both communal and artistic (and commercial) loci."

[14][15][16][17] Brand consulting work as creative director and designer includes projects for The New York Times, Dolby,[18] Jameson,[19] the Tonight Show,[20] Facebook,[21] Microsoft,[22] Honda[23] and Insound.

[30][31] His 2016 Intoxicating Pollen Wiggling in a Moist Journey of Constantly Blooming Tides at Garis & Hahn in New York, featuring abstract paintings of nudes and still lifes, led to a show of the same name inaugurating the gallery's Los Angeles location in 2017.

[32][33][34] Group shows include The Fine Line in 2010;[35] Walker Art Center's 2011 traveling installation Posterwall for the 21st Century, on the role digital art has played in design;[36] Wondering Around Wandering in 2012;[37] sculpture at the Corning Museum of Glass' Making Ideas: Experiments in Design at Glass Lab in 2013;[38] WOW (Writing on Walls) in Belgium in 2016;[39] and A Fantastic World in 2018.

Jacobson said the titles were “such a big part of the identity of Broad City.” [50] Mushrooms earned Perry and his team an Emmy Award for Outstanding Motion Design.

Other past artist participants include Lisa Hanawalt, Deanne Cheuk, Jon Burgerman, Julia Rothman and Monica Ramos.

[64] In 2018, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Motion Design as Animation Director for the Broad City Mushrooms episode for Comedy Central and Jax Media.