Katie Holmes and Jason Bard Yarmoski Confirm Relationship

Katie Holmes and painter Jason Bard Yarmoski are no longer hiding their relationship. On August 13, 2026, Yarmoski posted a photo of the actress to his Instagram account, and that same day she reposted his videos from their trip together.

In the photo, Holmes is smiling, standing in a stable, wearing a white silk skirt and top set. She wore silver pointed heels, her hair untouched by any styling. The shot is as casual as a social media post can get.

That day Yarmoski also shared photos from a visit to see the work of artist John Chamberlain and footage of a sunset boat ride. Holmes reposted both clips on her own account. Everything took place during a vacation on Shelter Island in New York state.

The confirmation, in other words, came from both accounts. He posted, she reposted. For a couple that had been nothing more than a subject of speculation until a month earlier, that is a significant step.

When were Katie Holmes and Yarmoski first seen together?

Their first public appearance together came on July 10, 2026, at a screening of the film “The Invite” in the Hamptons. They held hands, and that was as far as it went. No posing for photographers, no lingering at the entrance.

Later that same month they turned up at a Ferragamo event at Topping Rose House in Bridgehampton. By then they were already posing together for photos, the first sign that the relationship was not fleeting.

Just over a month passed between that first outing and the Instagram announcement:

• July 10, 2026: screening of “The Invite” in the Hamptons, their first public appearance together
• late July 2026: Ferragamo event in Bridgehampton, first photos of them together
• August 13, 2026: posts on both of their profiles, from their Shelter Island vacation

All three moments played out on the same stretch of ground, the Hamptons, then Bridgehampton, then Shelter Island, the summer circuit of eastern New York state where Hollywood names spend August. From a film screening and a fashion event, the relationship moved to a boat and a stable, and only there did it get its announcement.

Her first public relationship since 2022

Holmes is 47. From her marriage to Tom Cruise she has a daughter, Suri, who has just turned 20. After that marriage she was publicly linked to actor Jamie Foxx, and was also connected to Joshua Jackson, her Dawson’s Creek co-star.

She was last publicly linked to someone in 2022, when she had a brief relationship with musician Bobby Wooten III. Everything since then she has kept out of the spotlight.

Staying quiet about her private life is nothing new for Holmes, and she has spoken about it herself. In an interview with InStyle magazine, she described what it is like to live under constant attention:

Obviously, as a public person, I’ve gotten a lot of attention at different points in my life. And when you have a lot of attention, sometimes you don’t even want to leave the house because it’s just too much.

She said that at a time when she herself was a tabloid subject, and the sentiment lines up closely with how she has handled this relationship too. First an outing with no posing for cameras, then photos at a fashion event, then an announcement once she decided it was time.

Yarmoski is a painter who, until now, was not part of the actress’s celebrity circle. His account became, over the course of the summer, the place the news came from, and Holmes simply added her own part to it. The photo in the stable is everything the two of them have said about it publicly.