 She is a NYFA fellow (2003) and Pollock Krasner Grant recipient (2010).In the fall of 2004, Kysa Johnson had a solo exhibition with the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC.Her work was formerly on display at the Empire State Building (in 2000 she was commissioned to create an installation of six paintings for the concourse level in The Empire State Building), but in a January 2014 lawsuit, Johnson alleged that the building's owner had told her that the paintings "could not be located, were likely destroyed and therefore could not be returned."