EVA ZASLOFF, MD

Artist and family physician. Arlington, MA. Download CV (PDF)

EDUCATION

MD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Family Medicine Residency, Tufts University / Cambridge Health Alliance
Research year, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Postpartum experience, with Ulla Waldenström
BA, Art History / Visual Arts, Barnard College, 1998. Magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

POSITIONS, RESIDENCIES & APPOINTMENTS

Scholar, Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 2025–present. Focus: Art + Our Bodies | Explorations of the Newborn, Postpartum and Other Transformational Biology
Governing Board Member, Catalyst Conversations, Cambridge, MA, 2025–present
Artist Resident, Arts & Sciences Residency Program, Peaked Hill Trust, Provincetown, MA, June–July 2025
Artist, curator and host, the Barn at Schwamb Mill, Arlington, MA, 2020–present
Founder and family physician, Tova Health: fourth trimester newborn and maternal care at home, 2016–present
Co-founder, Sisters Body
Advisory Board, Breastpump Hackathon, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, 2018

EXHIBITIONS

2026
  Palingenesis (solo), Gallery 1832, LabCentral, Cambridge, MA. July–October
  Pine Needle Series, Misha & Puff, Brooklyn, NY. September

2025
  Winter Fruit (installation), Barn at Schwamb Mill, Arlington, MA. December. Works: Mast Fruiting, 2025. Acorns, glass bottles. Both Sides, 2025. Acorn roots, jute.
  A Gathering: Gardens, Portals, Protests (group), Kniznick Gallery, Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. June–August. Curated by Olivia Baldwin
  The Talent Show (group), Raymond Farm, Ipswich, MA. June

2024
  New Moon Play House (group, artist and co-curator), Barn at Schwamb Mill, Arlington, MA. November–December
  Rebirth Reimagine (group), The Substation, Roslindale, MA. October
  Nude Architecture: Women’s Painting Right Now (group), Worlds Fair Gallery, Providence, RI. September
  Invisible Labor (group), Firefolk Arts Gallery, Waitsfield, VT. September–October

2023
  Befriend (two-person, with Meghan Morris), Ishibashi Gallery, Concord, MA. September–October
  In the Fourth Trimester (group, artist and curator), Barn at Schwamb Mill, Arlington, MA. March. Reviewed in The Boston Globe

2022
  Raw Emotions: Small Vignettes of Motherhood (group), Jameson & Thompson, Jamaica Plain, MA. May–June

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

2018
  Reflections of Light on Breastmilk Particles (installation, with Laura Zittrain), MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA. April

CURATORIAL PROJECTS & PROGRAMMING, THE BARN AT SCHWAMB MILL

2026 A Very Special House, improvised puppet performances of the 1953 book by Ruth Krauss and Maurice Sendak, with puppets on loan from the Free Puppet Library. Tova Health 10th anniversary celebration. May 2026.
2025 Barn Winter Solstice, with author Nina MacLaughlin reading from her book Winter Solstice and music by Louisa Stancioff. December 2025.
2025 Anemochory, dance and visual collaboration with Butoh dancer Mari Osanai. December 2025.
2025 Barn Summer Solstice, with music by Mary Remington and elixirs by Willa Van Nostrand. June 2025.
2024 New Moon Play House, co-curated with Emily Auchincloss and Jessica Shearer. Thirteen artists
2023 In the Fourth Trimester, curator. Twelve artists

GRANTS & HONORS

FOCUS Women’s Health Leadership grant, University of Pennsylvania
Phi Beta Kappa, Barnard College

PRESS (SELECTED)

Jacqueline Houton, “A Doctor Paints Motherhood in an Arlington Barn”, Boston Magazine, 2025
“A Gathering: Gardens, Portals, Protests”, Art Spiel, 2025
“Community Picks: Memorable Cultural Moments, 2025”, Boston Art Review, 2025
Aviva Romm, MD, “Reclaiming Postpartum: A New (Old) Model of Mama + Baby Care”, On Health: A Podcast for Women, 2025
Nicole Graev Lipson, “Thinker Spotlight: Eva Zasloff”, Thinkers Who Mother, 2023
Cate McQuaid, “A doctor and painter shows what life is like ‘In the Fourth Trimester’”, The Boston Globe, 2023
Joanna Wolfarth, “The History of Breast Milk in Art”, Hyperallergic, 2023
Nicole Graev Lipson, “The ‘fourth trimester’ and plight of new mothers during a pandemic”, The Boston Globe Magazine, 2020
Brooke Bobb, “This All-Natural Beauty Line by Three Sisters Will Change the Way You Shower”, Vogue, 2018
Andrea Shea, “A Gift, A Challenge, An Isolating Experience: Artists Explore The Complexities Of Breastfeeding”, WBUR, 2018

PUBLICATIONS

Eva Zasloff, “Preparing For Baby’s First Weeks”, Mother Magazine, February 2018
Eva Zasloff, Erica Schytt, and Ulla Waldenström, “First time mothers’ pregnancy and birth experiences varying by age”, Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica 86, no. 11 (2007): 1328–1336
Daphne Goldberg and Eva Zasloff, “Post Dates Pregnancy” and “Labor Pain Management”, in Integrative Medicine, 2nd edition, edited by David Rakel (Saunders Elsevier, 2007)
Grace M. Lee, Joshua A. Salomon, Jennifer F. Friedman, Patricia L. Hibberd, Dennis Ross-Degnan, Eva Zasloff, Sitso Bediako, and Donald A. Goldmann, “Illness transmission in the home: a possible role for alcohol-based hand gels”, Pediatrics 115, no. 4 (2005): 852–860