Norris uses painting, sculpture, and performance art to create work about racial identity and the simultaneous visibility and invisibility of blackness through cultural appropriation in modern society.

[5][6] Following high school, in 1995, she moved to Los Angeles, where her biological father resided, initially to pursue a rap career.

[8] In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck, impacting Norris's family back in Mississippi and also shaping her artwork.

[8] The images that she created during this period were included in the portfolio that she submitted to the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture where she transferred in 2007.

[8] [9] While at UCLA, she worked under the guidance of several influential faculty, including: Andrea Fraser, Mary Kelly, Barbara Kruger, Rodney McMillian, Cathy Opie, and Lari Pittman.

The resulting effect is to disrupt the notions of a pristine white-cube gallery space, bringing up ideas of the body, violence, and pain.