[1][2][4] Her love for art began when she was very young when she discovered a book with Picasso's paintings.
[4] Johnson said that her art is viewed differently by Indigenous and non-Indigenous viewers because of their lack of knowledge and understanding of Indigenous terms, culture, and land.
[5] She wrote that when people hear about Native American Art, most of them think of "beads and feathers".
[3][6] She uses traditional materials to create emphasis on problems that have had a long history.
[11] Johnson's personal website has varied over time in her description of herself including "the daughter of Kanienkehaka (Mohawk), Blackfoot, and North American settlers" in 2014,[12] as "a woman of mixed Onkwehonwe* and settler descent" in 2016,[13] as "not claimed by, nor a citizen of any nation from which she descends (Irish, Kanien’keha:ká/Mohawk, Blackfoot, Jamaican, Swedish) in 2021[14] and as "not claimed by, nor a citizen of any nation from which she descends" (without names).