Biography
Anna Oneglia is an American artist based in Northern California whose practice encompasses oil painting, color woodcuts on handmade paper, and mixed media paintings with collage on panels. Working from the Arcata and Santa Cruz areas, she maintains an active exhibition schedule in galleries and cafes throughout the region while pursuing international residency opportunities in Japan.
Oneglia was a resident at MI-LAB (Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory) in 2024, participating in the Basic Training Program C in Echizen, Japan, where she studied mokuhanga, the traditional Japanese water-based woodblock printing technique. The MI-LAB program, which relocated to its new studio near Echizen Washi no Sato in 2024, provided her with intensive instruction in traditional tools and materials within one of Japan's most celebrated washi-producing regions.
Her Japanese residency experience has informed her ongoing printmaking practice, which focuses on color woodcuts printed on handmade paper. The combination of Western painting traditions with Japanese woodblock techniques is evident in her body of work, which moves between oil paintings on canvas and mokuhanga prints with the fluency of an artist equally comfortable in both media.
Oneglia's recent exhibitions include a featured artist presentation at Arcata Artisans Gallery in November 2025, a showing of paintings and prints from 2023 and 2024 at Brio Cafe in Arcata from January through April 2025, and a two-month exhibition of work from her Japan residencies at Tumbleweed Found in downtown Santa Cruz during the summer of 2025. She has also participated in North Coast Open Studios, an annual event that opens artists' workspaces to the public.
Her practice has been active since at least 2005, spanning two decades of painting and printmaking in Northern California. The integration of mokuhanga into her existing practice through the MI-LAB residency represents a deepening engagement with the relationship between East Asian and Western approaches to image-making on paper.
Key Facts
- Nationality
- 🇺🇸United States
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
Frequently Asked Questions
Anna Oneglia is an American artist based in Northern California whose practice encompasses oil painting, color woodcuts on handmade paper, and mixed media paintings with collage on panels. Working from the Arcata and Santa Cruz areas, she maintains an active exhibition schedule in galleries and cafes throughout the region while pursuing international residency opportunities in Japan.
Anna Oneglia's work was shaped by the Contemporary Mokuhanga tradition in Japanese woodblock printmaking. Contemporary Mokuhanga: Contemporary mokuhanga (literally "wood-block print") encompasses artists working from approximately 1970 to the present who continue or reinvent traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques.
Anna Oneglia is a contemporary printmaker working in the mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock) tradition. Their work contributes to the living tradition of Japanese woodblock printing. Prices for contemporary mokuhanga prints range from $100 for smaller works to $1,500 for major compositions. Most prints sell in the $180–$600 range. The global mokuhanga community has been growing, with increasing exhibition opportunities and collector interest. Contemporary mokuhanga represents an affordable entry point for collectors.