Lee Brozgol (b. 1941-2021)

Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1941, Brozgol came from a family of Sephardic and Eastern European Jewish immigrants. Brozgol studied psychology at the University of Chicago, before moving to downtown Manhattan in the early 1960’s.

There, he took art classes at Cooper Union and The Art Students League, while working and painting on Crosby Street in Soho.

Brozgol relocated to Eldridge Street in the heart of New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1980’s. He created work there for the next three decades, among a vibrant downtown arts community.

In his lifetime, Brozgol exhibited rarely and selectively, eschewing commercial galleries in favor of nonprofits, theaters and community spaces, such as Abrons Art Center, ABC No Rio, Painted Bride Art Center (Philadelphia), University of Alabama, and Brooklyn Museum.

Brozgol’s permanent public artworks commissioned by the City of New York remain with murals in landmark locations, most notably the Christopher Street Subway station “Greenwich Village Murals,” and “The House I Live In,” which is on permanent display at University Settlement House on Eldridge Street.

Since his death, Brozgol's work has been exhibited in a group exhibition at Picto New York (2024), Foreign & Domestic (2023), and at Home Gallery with Canal Street Research Association (2022)

A survey of Lee Brozgol's large scale paintings from 1977 to 1981, opening in May 2025, at the old Hotel Keller, at the site of the former Christopher Street piers, is presented by New Canons in collaboration with Foreign & Domestic.

Full Exhibition History here