

Perry worked at the company's headquarters on digital media, publications, and catalog design for three years. 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.

Perry graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2003 after changing his major from Art to Graphic Design. After getting into trouble as an early teen, he discovered drawing and painting when his grandfather, a painter, gave him a tackle box filled with oil paints. Perry grew up outside of Kansas City, Missouri. He works in a variety of media including illustration, animation, painting, type, magazines, videos, public art, sculpture, and books. His pop culture artwork, collaborative projects and communal work are often outside the standard art gallery sensibility. He is known for winning a Primetime Emmy Award for animation on Comedy Central's Broad City television show. Mike Perry is an American artist, illustrator, animator and curator. Primetime Emmy Award, Outstanding Motion Design, Animation Director, 2018, Broad City, Mushrooms episode

Broad City titles and animation, Wondering Around Wandering: Work-So-Far, Hand Job: A Catalog of Type, Pulled: A Catalog of Screen Printing, Over & Over: A Catalog of Hand-Drawn Patterns
