COMP Studios Fall 2026

Opening Reception: First Friday, October 2
Artist's Talk with both artists: October 10 at 1pm

Hours

Open Studios: Saturday October 3, 12-5pm & Saturday October 10, 12-5pm
*contact artists directly to arrange studio visits at other times

Current Artists

Eujin V Ra (she/her)
During the residency, the artist will develop and complete Pool of Life, an ongoing series of paintings and sculpture exploring memory, transformation, and the spiritual qualities embedded in daily life. Using imagery of water, animals, and dreamlike landscapes, the project melds abstraction and physical space to examine how identity and experience are shaped by the everyday.

Agam Neiman (he/him)
The artist will use the residency to create a series of medium- to large-scale representational paintings exploring the relationships between motion, memory, and landscape. Working from physically constructed collage compositions, the paintings will capture fleeting moments of light and place, preserving the quiet emotional resonance of lived experience.

About the Artists

Eujin V. Ra is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York, working across painting, sculpture, animation, and drawing. She received her BFA in Electronic and Time-Based Media with a minor in Behavioral Economics from Carnegie Mellon University. Ra’s practice constructs layered visual environments that connect memory, landscape, and abstraction. As a second-generation Korean American woman raised in Queens, New York, she explores how cultural inheritance and family dynamics shape the body and psyche, informed by spirituality and connection to the natural world. Her work has been exhibited at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, RIVAA Gallery, and the Miller Institute for Contemporary Art, among other venues in New York and Pittsburgh. She is a 2025 ARTWorks Fellow at JCAL and the recipient of Carnegie Mellon University’s Senior Leadership Award and the Samuel Rosenberg Award. In addition to her studio practice, Ra has worked in museum and gallery settings including The Frick Collection, supporting exhibition production and public engagement. She is interested in creating art that fosters conversation and in building spaces where dialogue, reflection, and shared experience can unfold.@eujinvart

Agam Neiman (b.1984) trained with Gammel student Paul Ingbretson in the Boston School approach to classical realism in New Hampshire, which served as my introduction to the world of fine arts and technical oil painting. Seeking to integrate a traditional approach with contemporary subjects and methods, he trained with renowned illustrator Greg Manchess before moving to Montreal in order to seek an industry oriented path into the world of digital concept art. However, events of 2020 motivated Agam’s recommitment to a hands-on studio practice as the experience of lockdown and isolation caused him to reflect on the crucial immediacy of art making as a material, tactile encounter with the world. He shifted his practice into the production of plein air urban nocturne studies painted impressionistically before delving further into portraiture. He has since attended two residencies at the Maison de Chapitres in Southern France before relocating to the Hudson Valley where he maintains his studio practice. @agamagon

About COMP Studios

COMP Studios provides artists with inexpensive and free, temporary space to advance their practice and engage the public. This initiative expands RoCo's work to support artists, advances the ecosystem for contemporary art in Downtown Rochester; and builds upon grassroots efforts like First Friday, Rochester’s Citywide Gallery Night, and 2019's Current Seen. In addition to providing work space, this initiative will boost an artist's access to audiences and expose the public to an artist’s latest artwork. COMP Studios is Creative Opportunities Made Public. In 2024 COMP was located offsite at a nearby office building and supported by Chashama and The New York State Council for the Arts. In 2025 we moved this program back to the 2nd Floor of RoCo's main facility at 137 East Avenue.