Who Is Joe Keery Dating? Everything We Know About His Love Life in 2026

Who Is Joe Keery Dating Right Now?

No one — publicly, at least. As of October 2026, Joe Keery is single by every available account. The 34-year-old actor-musician has not been photographed with a romantic partner, named one in any interview, or been credibly linked to anyone in roughly two years. His dating life since the Maika Monroe split has been a study in absence: one unconfirmed link, one viral misunderstanding, and otherwise silence.

This is not the coyness of a star hiding something; it is the settled posture of someone who learned what publicity costs. Keery's one major relationship played out across five years with almost no public commentary from either party — a cheek kiss at a premiere, a few red carpets, and then it was over. He discussed the split exactly twice in meaningful terms: to Variety in June 2024 ("I had also gone through a big breakup, right as I was leaving Rome") and to Nylon in April 2025, describing the breakup's aftermath while discussing his album The Crux. That is the complete on-the-record account.

The current era is defined by work, not romance. Keery's music career as Djo — Twenty Twenty (2019), Decide (2022), The Crux (2025) — has grown from side project to genuine second career, with "End of Beginning" becoming a TikTok-driven sleeper hit in 2024. His acting has diversified beyond Steve Harrington: Fargo season 5 (as the villainous Gator Tillman), the film Finally Dawn, and an upcoming horror comedy. Interviews find him talking about craft, music, and the strange experience of growing up on television — and deflecting the personal questions entirely.

For fans still asking "who is Joe Keery dating," the answer has been the same for years: no one he has chosen to tell you about. And given his history, that is unlikely to change without a very deliberate decision on his part.

Joe Keery and Maika Monroe: The Five-Year Relationship

Keery's defining relationship — his only confirmed one — was with actress Maika Monroe, the It Follows and The Guest star who was, when they met, arguably the bigger film name. They met in 2017 at a party in Los Angeles (some accounts place their first meeting during the production of the rom-com After Everything, released in 2018) and went public on October 26, 2017, when Monroe kissed his cheek on camera at the Stranger Things season 2 premiere.

What stands out, in retrospect, is how little of the relationship was ever public. Across five years, the trail amounts to red-carpet photos, a story about a necklace, and Monroe's photography of Keery — she shot him for Interview in August 2020 and photographed him in white face paint for his Djo project that September. They never gave a couple interview, never posted couple content, never performed the relationship for an audience.

The split itself was confirmed only retroactively: when Monroe was photographed kissing Dalton Gomez (Ariana Grande's ex-husband) in October 2023, a full year after the breakup Keery later described. His Variety account fills in the emotional geography: leaving Rome after wrapping Finally Dawn, arriving in Calgary to film Fargo, isolated by COVID protocols and heartbreak, his social life revolving entirely around the show. "I was dealing with my own personal s***, living in Calgary, basically only had two friends," he told Nylon in 2025. The Crux — an album about returning to who you were before — was the artistic result.

The Rumors: Chase Sui Wonders and the Sabrina Carpenter Viral Moment

Two post-Monroe episodes deserve explicit treatment — one a maybe, one a definite not. The maybe: Chase Sui Wonders. In October 2023, Page Six reported Keery and the I Know What You Did Last Summer actress walking arm in arm in New York City; they were photographed together again in February 2024. Neither ever confirmed anything, and the sightings stopped as quietly as they started. Who's Dated Who lists it as a 2023-2024 relationship; the honest classification is unconfirmed link — plausible, photographed, never acknowledged.

The definite not: Sabrina Carpenter. On October 4, 2025, during her Austin City Limits set, Carpenter's "cuffing season" bit featured a staged "arrest" video with Keery — and the clip went viral, sending a segment of the internet into full shipping mode. It was, to be clear, a stage bit: a comedy sketch inside a concert, not a relationship announcement. But virality does not care about context, and for weeks Keery's name trended alongside Carpenter's as though something real had happened. Nothing had.

The episode was instructive. Keery, who had spent years being single in public without incident, was suddenly at the center of a fan-manufactured romance — the same machinery that once linked his co-star Finn Wolfhard to half of young Hollywood. He did what he always does: said nothing, and let it pass. The Carpenter moment evaporated; the singlehood remained.

As of October 2026, the Wonders link is the last even-plausible romantic rumor attached to Keery's name — and it is two years old, unconfirmed, and long cold. Everything since has been music, film, and silence.

The Breakup in the Music: Djo's The Crux

If Keery has processed his love life anywhere, it is in his music. His third album as Djo, The Crux — released April 4, 2025 — was written, by his own account, in the wake of the Monroe breakup, and the press cycle around it produced his most revealing comments on the subject. "I was going through a breakup when I started writing this album," he told Nylon, "and I feel like a big part of that process is going back to who you are — or who you were before."

The album's themes — metamorphosis, isolation, return — map directly onto the biography: the Calgary winter, the two friends, the workouts, the self-reconstruction. Thought Catalog, in an October 2026 piece, noted how fans have spent the year theorizing that the breakup songs are about Monroe — theories Keery has never confirmed, because he has never said the songs are about anyone. The music is personal; the personnel are private. That is the Djo contract.

It is worth appreciating how unusual this is as a celebrity-breakup strategy. Most stars process splits through interviews, social posts, or diss tracks with names attached. Keery processed his through a synth-pop album about becoming himself again, discussed the process in general terms, and declined to connect the dots. The fans connect them anyway — that is what fans do — but he has never helped.

The result is a romantic record that exists almost entirely in subtext: one confirmed relationship, one unconfirmed link, one viral non-event, and an album's worth of feeling that he will discuss as art but never as autobiography. For a generation raised on oversharing, it is either refreshing or maddening. For Keery, it is simply how he works.

What's Next for Joe Keery

With Stranger Things concluding after its fifth and final season, Keery is in the post-Hawkins phase alongside his castmates — and his second act looks more diversified than most. The Djo project is no longer a hobby: three albums in, a viral hit, and a live following that exists independently of Steve Harrington. His acting choices — Fargo's Gator Tillman, indie films, an upcoming horror comedy — suggest someone deliberately building range rather than chasing franchises.

That trajectory explains the singlehood better than any rumor could. The 2025 profiles describe a 34-year-old deliberately slowing down, choosing projects carefully, and protecting his interior life — the same interior life that produced The Crux. Romance, if it is happening, is happening off-camera, which is the only place it has ever happened comfortably for him.

It is also worth noting the contrast with his castmates' approaches. Where some have monetized their relationships and others have had theirs dissected against their will, Keery has maintained a third path: acknowledged when necessary (the Variety interview), silent otherwise, and consistent throughout. The Monroe relationship was private; its end was private; the aftermath was art.

As of October 2026, the record stands: single, one confirmed ex (Maika Monroe, 2017-2022), one unconfirmed link (Chase Sui Wonders, 2023-2024), one debunked viral moment (Sabrina Carpenter, October 2025), zero confirmed current partners. It is a thin file for a star his size — and, given what the file contains, an understandable one.

And perhaps that thinness is the point. In a fandom economy that treats every co-star interaction as evidence and every concert bit as a relationship announcement, Keery's refusal to participate has kept his actual life remarkably intact. The file is thin because he never filled it — and after a decade in the most scrutinized cast on television, the discipline required to keep it that way is its own kind of achievement.

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