What to Know About Katie Holmes' New Love Interest Jason Bard Yarmosky

Katie Holmes Steps Out With Artist Jason Bard Yarmosky at ‘The Invite’ Screening

Katie Holmes is nothing if not an appreciator of the New York art scene.

And somewhere along the way, she met Jason Bard Yarmosky, the local artist she was noticeably holding hands with at the East Hampton premiere of The Invite on July 10 and continued to look cozy with in a subsequent NYC sighting.

Since her 2012 divorce from Tom Cruise, Holmes—who shares daughter Suri Cruise, 20, with her ex-husband—has maintained as low a profile as possible when it comes to her love life, dating a handful of people to the extent that the world eventually would know about it, but otherwise not engaging in many public displays of relationship.

Her last red carpet appearances with a date came in 2022, with composer Bobby Wooten III, but they appeared to have fizzled by the end of the year.

So, showing up hand-in-hand with Yarmosky to see Olivia Wilde's new relationship comedy, and then strolling in Manhattan with their arms around each other, indicates that Holmes didn't want to wait any longer to openly date someone.

And presumably she was ready to make a few headlines. Because, considering the excitement caused when she and Joshua Jackson reunited to costar in Happy Hours—her latest directorial effort, which premiered in June at the Tribeca Festival—the 47-year-old is aware that interest in her love life hasn't waned in the 23 years since Dawson's Creek ended.

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But who is the man that Holmes was spotted on a Hamptons date with, a sighting that automatically rekindled fans' thoughts and feelings about the star's interior world? Here is what to know about Yarmosky:

Who is Jason Bard Yarmosky?

Yarmosky is a painter and filmmaker whose work has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world.

The native New Yorker was born in 1987 and graduated from NYC's School of Visual Arts with a BFA in 2010, according to his website bio.

His work "centers on themes of aging, time, and memory," the bio notes, while his paintings combine 17th and 18th century technique with contemporary imagery.

Guild Hall of East Hampton hosted the Yarmonsky exhibition "Time Has Many Faces" earlier this year, as well as screened his film Dream of the Soft Look.

In May 2025, anyone could walk by and enjoy the public installation "Timeless Women in New York," five 7-foot portraits of inspiring women who influenced local art and culture placed in the windows of Fifth Avenue department store Bergdorf Goodman.

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Where does Jason Bard Yarmosky live and work?

Yarmosky's grandmother and muse Elaine Bard died in 2018 and, after his grandfather Leonard Bard passed away in 2020, the artist moved that October from his Brooklyn home to the "Double Diamond," his cousin's 600-square-foot beach cottage designed by architect Andrew Geller that's been in their family since it was built on Long Island in 1959.

“It’s become my journal,” Yarmosky told the New York Times' T Magazine in 2021. "All my notes and ideas, whether they are paintings or writings, I put them up everywhere on the walls, and then I take them down and put other ones up. I found a space for all of my thoughts to live in.”

The home's view of the Atlantic Ocean subsequently made its way into some of his oil-and-wax paintings.

“I’ve been able to deal with loss and my grief in a space that doesn’t pressure me,” Yarmosky said, "and that has allowed me to enjoy the process of making art in a new way. It’s been a blessing."

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What does Jason Bard Yarmosky paint?

Yarmosky's bio notes that his beloved grandparents were a subject of his portraits for more than 10 years, "helping him explore the complex aspects of growing older including vulnerability, care, wisdom, and humor."

Images of the couple—including Eleanor dressed as a bunny and Leonard as Batman—factored prominently in Yarmosky's "Time Has Many Faces" exhibit, which, as he explained in an April video for Numéro NY, represented 10 to 12 years of his work exploring "different avenues of aging, from the physicality to the psychology."

"I think all the paintings are speaking," he said. "I think that's the beauty of painting, capturing visually a subject. It's not just visual. It communicates with other senses as well. Visual work speaks to me as loudly as music."

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How did Katie Holmes meet Jason Bard Yarmosky?

While both Holmes and Yarmosky have yet to comment on their relationship status, a source told TMZ that the pair met in June at a Tribeca Festival dinner and have been spending time together since.

Holmes' movie Happy Hours had its world premiere at the festival June 6, and she was at the Chanel Tribeca Festival Artists Dinner on June 8—as was Yarmosky, who was one of 10 artists chosen by the fashion house to create a work to be awarded to one of the festival's winning filmmakers that, according to curator Zoe Lukov, explored "ideas of character, costuming and performance."

He also made the scene at the Bloomberg Reception June 1 and Awards Night at Spring Studios June 11.

E! News reached out to Holmes' and Yarmosky's reps for comment but did not hear back.

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