The name Jason Bard Yarmosky has been on a lot of people’s lips since July 2026, when the Jason Bard Yarmosky Katie Holmes pairing first surfaced in public. Born in 1987 in New York, according to the Tribeca Film Festival, Yarmosky is a contemporary artist whose work spans museums, galleries and public art installations across the United States and beyond.
It began, as these things often do, with a photograph. On 10 July, Holmes and Yarmosky were photographed arriving hand in hand at a screening of The Invite, hosted by The Cinema Society in East Hampton. An eyewitness told People that Yarmosky ‘was whispering in her ear, and she was laughing, they seemed very easy together, and there was a smile on her face all night.’ The source added that the pair sat together during the film, with Holmes at one point resting her head on his shoulder. ‘They looked very cute,’ the eyewitness said.
A few days later, they were photographed hugging as they walked to dinner in New York City. By 22 July, sources confirmed to People that Holmes and Yarmosky were dating, and the outlet referred to him as her boyfriend. ‘Katie has always been drawn to people who are creative,’ an insider told People. ‘She loves being around people who are passionate about what they do. She enjoys learning and experiencing new things.’
How Jason Bard Yarmosky and Katie Holmes First Met
According to a source with direct knowledge who spoke to TMZ on 15 July, the pair first met at a Tribeca Festival dinner in June 2026. Holmes had premiered her film Happy Hours at the festival, while Yarmosky was participating as one of 10 artists selected for the Chanel and Tribeca Festival Artist Awards Programme, an initiative that commissions original works presented to winning filmmakers. A source close to Holmes told People they ‘went on a date shortly after, and she finds him interesting.’
Yarmosky marked the honour on Instagram, writing: ‘Thrilled to be part of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival and Chanel’s artist program. Thank you @zoelukov!’
The relationship moved along at a steady pace through the summer. On 21 July, they were seen holding hands arriving at SoHo Sessions, an event benefiting the Animal League that featured a performance by Sienna Spiro. On 25 July, Holmes and Yarmosky made their first public appearance as a couple at a Ferragamo dinner held at Topping Rose House in Bridgehampton. When ELLE asked about their coordinated outfits that evening, Holmes said: ‘I think we just have similar taste.’
On 7 August, they walked an official red carpet together for the first time at the 2026 Guild Hall Summer gala. The Instagram official moment came on 13 August, when Yarmosky shared a photo of Holmes to his Instagram Story documenting their Hamptons holiday together. LaineyGossip noted that Holmes reciprocated by sharing one of his photos to her own grid. Later in August, on the 21st, the pair attended a birthday dinner held in honour of designer Michael Kors in East Hampton.
Jason Bard Yarmosky’s Artistic Career and His Place in American Art
Yarmosky earned his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 2010. Since then he has spent more than a decade exploring themes of ageing, memory, identity and the passage of time through his paintings. His work has appeared at institutions including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Guild Hall in East Hampton, the San Antonio Museum of Art, and the Addison Gallery of American Art. The Tribeca Film Festival also notes that his pieces are held in the collections of Schiaparelli at 21 Place Vendôme and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
Some of his best-known works centre on his grandparents, who served as subjects for his paintings for more than a decade. Speaking to the School of Visual Arts in 2016, Yarmosky explained why he had always gravitated towards that subject. ‘The art that speaks to me the most is personal,’ he said. ‘In our society, we don’t celebrate getting older. We celebrate youth, but it’s inevitable that we all age. So why can’t we celebrate the full life cycle?’
In a 2013 interview with Artnet about his Elder Kinder series, he described what he hoped viewers would find. ‘I wanted to bring out the inner, youthful aspect that we all have as we get older,’ he said, adding that he was ‘focusing more on them on an intimate level.’ On ageing himself, he was characteristically direct: ‘Nobody should want to be young forever. You should want to enjoy all of life.’
His career has taken his work to New York, Los Angeles, Paris and Brussels. Earlier this year, Guild Hall in East Hampton presented his solo exhibition Time Has Many Faces. In 2025, Bergdorf Goodman featured his portrait series Timeless Women in the department store’s Fifth Avenue windows. Speaking to WWD about that project, Yarmosky said: ‘I’m inspired by the overlap between costume and fashion; how a dress can convey personal style and yet create a persona. The right garment can embolden a sitter to reveal themselves, expressing identity and personality.’
The couple’s next confirmed public step came at that Ferragamo dinner in Bridgehampton on 25 July, and from there the appearances have kept coming, a trajectory that, given the summer pace of things, shows little sign of slowing down.
