Known for her strict privacy protection strategy, actress Katie Holmes has not been able to avoid becoming the center of growing media attention. First, because her daughter Suri has dropped her father’s surname, Tom Cruise; and second, because she has just made public a new romantic relationship. The star of the series Dawson’s Creek no longer hides her romance with the New York painter Jason Bard Yarmosky.
Holmes and Yarmosky met in early June during a Tribeca Festival dinner held in New York. Later they were seen arriving hand in hand at the premiere of the film The Invitation—starring Penélope Cruz—in the Hamptons, and now they have made their romance official by attending a Ferragamo show together in the Big Apple. The actress and the visual artist appeared in total harmony, wearing matching outfits in navy blue.
When asked about their coordinated looks, Katie Holmes told Elle: “I think we simply share similar tastes.” These were her first and brief remarks about her new boyfriend, the first one known to the actress since her split from musician Bobby Wooten III in December 2022.
Despite the public confirmation of this new relationship, sources close to the couple have stated that they continue to prioritize a calm and discreet routine in New York City. But the act of posing together in front of photographers’ flashes marks a shift in her usual tactic of avoiding Hollywood’s media scrutiny.
Who is Jason Bard Yarmosky?
Katie Holmes’s new partner is a 37-year-old painter—ten years younger than the actress—born in Poughkeepsie, New York. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York, and his work has been marked by a fascination with aging, time, and memory. An artistic obsession that began in his childhood thanks to the close bond he shared with his grandparents, who became his muses for years.
The painter Jason Bard Yarmosky, in front of two of his works.
Jason lives and works currently in Brooklyn and has ties to the Hamptons—the summer retreat of New York high society—through his family. He rose to fame with his series Elder Kinder, in which he portrayed his grandparents dressed in period outfits. His works challenge the traditional fixation of art history with youth by placing older people at the center of the canvas with dignity, humor, and warmth.
His work has been shown internationally, and earlier this year he opened Time Has Many Faces, a solo exhibition at the Guild Hall Museum in New York. In 2025, his portraits were displayed in the storefront windows of the exclusive Bergdorf Goodman department stores on Fifth Avenue.
Katie Holmes’s Low Profile
Katie Holmes’s most publicized relationship was with Tom Cruise. The couple married in 2006 after a whirlwind romance, but the actress filed for divorce in 2012. Earlier, she had a brief romance with Joshua Jackson, her Dawson’s Creek co-star, in 1998, and later she was engaged to actor Chris Klein between 2003 and 2005. After her divorce, she was linked to another actor, Jamie Foxx. Then, Katie briefly dated restaurateur Emilio Vitolo Jr. and singer Bobby Wooten III.
Since then, Katie Holmes has focused on her work both in front of and behind the camera. She wrote, directed, and starred in Happy Hours, a romantic comedy-drama that premiered at the Tribeca Festival in June 2026 and that brought her on screen with Joshua Jackson for the first time in more than 25 years.
