Eva Zasloff MD is a family physician and multidisciplinary artist based in Arlington, Massachusetts, whose practice moves between the studio, the homes of the families she cares for, and the community. Her work spans painting, installation, textile, and immersive projection — always circling the same territory: bodies in transformation, the biology of becoming, the materials of care.
As founder of Tova Health (2016), she created a fourth-trimester home care model — covered by insurance — that provides integrated pediatric and maternal medical care to families in their homes during the first months of life. The practice has cared for over 600 families in the Greater Boston area. She is a 2026 Scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, where her research focuses on Art and Our Bodies: Explorations of the Newborn, Postpartum and Other Transformational Biology. As a governing board member of Catalyst Conversations — a Cambridge program connecting leading artists and scientists, with ties to MIT and the Broad Institute — she works at the intersection of art and scientific inquiry.
Her Birth Stories series uses newborn receiving blankets as canvas, playing with the iconic pink-and-blue striped cloth and its absorbency to tell birth stories in abstract form. Her installation Reflections of Light on Breastmilk Particles (MIT Media Lab, 2018) projected microscopic images of donated breastmilk into an immersive room of pillows and blankets — featured in Hyperallergic and WBUR. Her large-scale floor paintings, including her Instar series, are built from handmade paints using natural and found pigments — egg, burnt wood, and clay — in forms that feel like bodies, like open portals, like something emerging.
Her studio is the Barn at Old Schwamb Mill — one of the oldest surviving mills in the United States — where she also curates free public exhibitions, music concerts, and performance collaborations. Recent programming includes a site-specific Butoh performance by world-renowned dancer Mari Osanai (2025) and New Moon Play House (2024), an immersive group exhibition co-curated with Jessica Shearer and Emily Auchincloss, featuring Polly Apfelbaum. The Barn has been reviewed and featured in the Boston Globe, Boston Art Review, and Boston Magazine.
She is also one of the cofounder and sister of Sisters Body, a beloved microbiome-friendly hair and body line that donates a portion of its profits to reproductive rights and has been featured in various publications including Vanity Fair and Vogue.
In summer 2025, Zasloff completed a dune shack residency with the Peaked Hill Trust Arts and Sciences Program in Provincetown, experimenting with the chemistry of cyanotype pigment-making.
She holds a BA in Art History / Visual Arts from Barnard College (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and an MD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
POSITIONS, RESIDENCIES & APPOINTMENTS
Founder & family doctor of Tova health: Fourth trimester newborn & maternal care at home
Co-founder, Sisters Body
Scholar, WSRC, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 2025–Present
Focus: Art + Our Bodies | Explorations of the Newborn, Postpartum and Other Transformational BiologyArtist Resident, Arts & Sciences Residency Program, Peaked Hill Trust, Provincetown, MA, June–July 2025
Engaged with natural landscapes to create site-responsive works exploring ecology and memory.Governing Board Member, Catalyst Conversations, Cambridge, MA, Spring 2025–Present
Advancing dialogue between leading artists and scientists. Focus on programming and advisory work.Advisory Board, MIT Breastpump Hackathon, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, 2018
Supported innovation in maternal health technology through design informed perspective.
Hyperallergic, 2023. “Eva Zasloff’s “Reflections of light on breastmilk particles” (2018) took images of the microscopic particles and projected them into an intimate space at MIT. This telescoping in on breast milk offers shifting perspectives on what it signifies, as delicate orbs float across the field of vision like stars. A galaxy of proteins, minerals, fats, antibodies, and bioactive components — which makes milk a living substance — are revealed in this close examination. Responsive to a baby’s needs, every mother’s milk is different. Zasloff herself cares for families as a physician in the postpartum period, and her art is a reminder of the scale and specificity of maternal work.”
Boston Magazine, 2025.“(Zasloff) fills canvases with rounded shapes that seem to stretch and swell, hinting at changing bodies, dividing cells, and movements in utero. Her process is intuitive and improvisational.”
Thinkers Who Mother, 2023. “Her striking forms call to mind the movements and shapes of one human body tending to another.”
Boston Globe, 2023. “An abstract piece from the Mother series, Zasloff’s ongoing reflection on the sacred passage from one body to two, elegantly captures the dark scoop of a dark form wrapped around a smaller , lighter one, although they still appear as one.”
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS (Selected)
Jacqueline Houton, “A Doctor Paints Motherhood in an Arlington Barn”, Boston Magazine, 2025. Link
Joanna Wolfarth, “The History of Breast Milk in Art”, Hyperallergic, 2023. Link
Cate McQuaid, “A doctor-painter shows what life is like in the fourth trimester”, Boston Globe, 2023. Link
Nicole Lipson, “The Fourth Trimester Plight of New Mothers During the Pandemic”, Boston Globe Magazine, 2020. Link
Brooke Bobb, “This All-Natural Beauty Line by Three Sisters Will Change the Way You Shower”, Vogue, 2018. Link
Andrea Shea, “A Gift, A Challenge, An Isolating Experience: Artists Explore The Complexities of Breastfeeding,” WBUR News, 2018. Link
Exhibitions (Selected)
2025 A Gathering: Gardens, Portals, Protests (group) Kniznick Gallery, Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA | June–August Collaborative exhibition with 14 New England and New York-based artists. Curated by Olivia Baldwin. (Art Spiel)
The Talent Show (group) Raymond Farm, Ipswich, MA | June 2025
2024 New Moon Play House (group, artist + co-curator) Barn at Schwamb Mill, Arlington, MA | November 2–December 7 Immersive, interactive exhibition. Co-curated with Emily Auchincloss and Jessica Shearer. Featured artists: Polly Apfelbaum, Loren Erdich, Bhen Alan, Eleanor Conover, S. Billie Mandle, Erin Woodbrey.
Rebirth Reimagine (group) The Substation, Roslindale, MA | October 2024
Nude Architecture: Women's Painting Right Now (group) Worlds Fair Gallery, Providence, RI | September 2024
Invisible Labor (group) Firefolk Arts Gallery, Waitsfield, VT | September–October 2024
2023 Befriend (two-person) Ishibashi Gallery, Concord, MA | September–November 2023
2022 Raw Emotions: Small Vignettes of Motherhood (group) Jameson & Thompson, Jamaica Plain, MA | May–June 2022
In the Fourth Trimester (group, artist + curator) Barn at Schwamb Mill, Arlington, MA | March 2022 Reviewed by Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe.
2021 Color Forms (solo) Misha & Puff, Newburyport, MA | December 2021–January 2022
Views from the Studio (studio show) Barn at Schwamb Mill, Arlington, MA | September 2021
2018 Reflections of Light on Breastmilk Particles (solo installation) Between the Magic & the Machine, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA | April 2018 Featured in Hyperallergic and WBUR.