Julia Kaganskiy

Julia Kaganskiy (born May 22, 1986) is a New York-based cultural producer. She was the founding director of NEW INC, the New Museum's incubator for art, technology, and design, and is known for starting the art, culture, and technology meetup group ArtsTech in 2008. As of April 2026, she is the executive director of Eyebeam, an organization that "support artists who create with technology."

Early life Kaganskiy was born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Kyiv, Ukraine), where her father was an engineer and her mother worked as a music teacher. She spent her childhood visiting her great-grandmother's family house in a small village outside of Kyiv. At the age of six, her family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York, where her parents encountered initial difficulty due to language barriers.

Career In 2008, Kaganskiy started the New York-based arts, culture, and technology meetup group ArtsTech shortly after graduating. and started to curate pop-up shows for new media art. where she served as Global Editor until 2014. In 2014, the New Museum appointed Kaganskiy director of NEW INC,

She has been profiled as an influential woman in technology by Fast Company (2011), the AOL/PBS series "MAKERS" (2012), and Business Insider (2013) and named to Crain’s New York Business 40 Under 40 list (2015).