She has exhibited her work nationally for over 30 years most notably in 2009 as a featured artist in the exhibition KOKESHI: Folk Art to Art Toy at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles CA. In 2017 her video as part of the Miranda July ARCHIVE Joanie4Jackie became part of the permanent collection of the Getty Institute. Recently she has delved into public art completing a mural with the City of Tucson’s Downtown Mural Project as well as a temporary immersive exhibition at the Scottsdale Public Library with Scottsdale Public Art. Much beloved by the Tucson community, in 2018 she was nominated as a finalist for Best Visual Artist in the Tucson Weekly then in 2021 she was nominated for the Governor’s Arts Award. In 2021 She was invited to collaborate with the New Mexico based art collective meow wolf as part of the permanent immersive experience Convergence Station in Denver, Co. her solo exhibition, Radical Happiness, comprised of over 150 works created during the isolation of the pandemic was on public display at the chandler center for the arts in chandler, AZ. In 2023 she was invited by Governor katie hobb’s office to collaborated on an inclusive merchandise design representing all arizonans.
Since 2023 she has been a recipient of a Research and Development grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, a Start grant from the arts foundation of tucson and southern arizona and a night bloom grant from moca tucson and the andy warhol foundation for the visual arts.