Urness showed her Alaskan work at the Indigenous Fine Art Market and twice at the Santa Fe Indian Market in 2014, winning "Best in Division" and "Best in Category"; the images were also recognized by the California-based Autry Museum of the American West, the Art Basel fair in Miami and the Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair and Market in Arizona. She has also shown at Photo L.A. SPECTRUM, Native Treasures Indian Arts Festival, and co-owns the ZOHI Gallery in Santa Fe. Her photograph "Dec. 5, 2016: No Spiritual Surrender", at the Oceti Sakowin Camp on Standing Rock Sioux Reservation at the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests, was entered for a Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography by "World Literature Today", where it appeared on the cover of the magazine's May 2017 issue, "New Native Writing: From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock." From her artist's statement, her work aims to send the message, "We are here. And we are thriving, through our traditions."