Speculations are buzzing around Hollywood star Katie Holmes and artist Jason Bard Yarmosky following a cozy sighting in the Hamptons on July 10, 2026, where the two were seen sharing intimate moments while holding hands.
Their romance speculation ignited during their initial public appearance together; they attended a screening of “The Invite,” directed by Olivia Wilde, at the East Hampton Regal UA in New York.
According to an onlooker who spoke to People, the chemistry was undeniable as Yarmosky was seen whispering sweet nothings into the ear of the “Dawson’s Creek” star, leaving her beaming with joy throughout the evening.
The rumor mill picked up pace as the pair couldn’t seem to keep their hands off each other during a dinner outing in bustling New York City on July 14.
Captured in candid snaps by Page Six, Holmes and Yarmosky were photographed embracing each other lovingly, feeding the narrative of a budding romance.
Page Six is breaking down all we know about Yarmosky.
He’s an artist
Yarmosky, born in 1987, is a New York native who graduated with a bachelor of fine arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in 2010, according to his website.
He has an extensive background as an artist starting from when he was young, with his grandparents, Elaine and Leonard Bard, being the subject of several of his portraits.
The visionary’s practice focuses on aging, mixing “traditional 17th- and 18th-century painting techniques” and “contemporary imagery.”
Yarmosky describes his art as sending the message “that humor and imagination persist even in the face of loss.”
His work has been displayed in exhibitions throughout New York, Paris, Los Angeles and Belgium, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, San Antonio Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Addison Gallery of American Art.
He’s inspired by his grandparents
Yarmosky’s biggest muses have been his grandparents, who have allowed him to “explore the complex aspects of growing older, including vulnerability, care, wisdom, and humor,” per his website.
During an interview with Numéro New York in April 2026, he explained that a few of his hyper-realistic paintings have been of his grandma Elaine as a bunny and grandpa Leonard as a cowboy.
Yarmosky used several of his grandparent-inspired paintings that explore aging — physically and psychologically — in his Guild Hall exhibition, “Time Has Many Faces,” which was on view in the East Hamptons from January 2026 to April 2026.
Yarmosky’s grandpa died in April 2020, and his grandma in 2018 from Alzheimer’s disease.
He lives in Long Island
After his grandparents passed away, Yarmosky moved from Brooklyn, New York, to his cousin’s beach cottage in Long Island.
Overwhelmed with grief, he told T Magazine, a New York Times publication, in 2021, that the home “become [his] journal.”
“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 painter said.
After briefly being unable to create art, Yarmosky explained that the oceanfront home gave him the space to “deal with loss and [his] grief in a space that doesn’t pressure” him.
He met Holmes in June 2026
Yarmosky and Holmes met at a Tribeca Festival dinner in NYC in June 2026, an insider told TMZ.
Another source told People that he and the mother of Suri Cruise appeared well acquainted when they went to watch “The Invite” on July 10.
“He was whispering in her ear, and she was laughing, they seemed very easy together and there was a smile on her face all night,” an insider said.
“They sat together during the movie, she had her head on his shoulder at one point. They looked very cute.”