[5][6] Ashoona attended high school in Iqaluit, but soon returned to the Kinngait region with her daughter, living with her family at outposts like Luna Bay and Kangiqsualujjuaq.

In sharp contrast to the work of other Kinngait artists, these landscape views were largely devoid of human activity and were also unusual in their introspective quality, seemingly to mirror an interior world while illustrating an exterior one.

[4][17] One of six works from this period acquired by the National Gallery of Canada, Rock Landscape was also featured in the CBC radio series, All in a Day (One Treasure at a Time) in 2003.

[17] She began using colour in her drawings in the early 2000s, portraying human figures, their shelters, and tools within graphic, imposing topographies, like in the work Composition (Sewage Truck) (2007–8) in the Samuel and Esther Sarick Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario.

[18] Her collaborative work (with John Noestheden), Earth and Sky is a gigantic banner that debuted at Art Basel in 2009 in an installation complex called Stadthimmel ("Citysky").

[28] Ashoona is the subject of a short documentary film titled Ghost Noise (2010), directed by Marcia Connolly[29] and had the song "Midnight Sun" dedicated to her by musician Kevin Hearn, who she painted a guitar for.