Eva Zasloff MD is a family physician and multidisciplinary artist based in Arlington, Massachusetts. With a focus on the newborn and postpartum biology, Zasloff’s art practice is about our bodies, our biology and the messiness, magic and sometimes humor in the birth experience. Zasloff’s art process is “intuitive and improvisational”, as described in Boston Magazine, “fills canvases with rounded shapes that seem to stretch and swell, hinting at changing bodies, dividing cells, and movements in utero.”

Eva Zasloff is the founder of Tova Health (2016) a fourth trimester home-based medical model of care — covered by insurance — that provides integrated pediatric and maternal 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 and Zasloff continues to be a leader in the field of postpartum innovative healthcare.

She was awarded 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.

Her art work is gestural and plays with the notions of transformation. She works with natural materials [like egg, breastmilk and clay] and materials that relate to birth [like receiving blankets and embryology textbooks].

“Zasloff’s ongoing reflection,” writes Cate McQuaid in the Boston Globe, “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” in Zasloff’s ‘Mother’ painting series.

Hyperallergic describes Zasloff’s MIT installation “Reflections of light on breastmilk particles” (2018) that took images of the microscopic particles and projected them into an intimate space at MIT as “a 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.”

Zasloff is also the curator and host of many cultural events at her barn, and it was recently highlighted in the Boston Art Review article “Memorable Cultural Moments of 2025.” The barn is part of the campus of the historic Old Schwamb Mill— one of the oldest surviving mills in the United States. Recent programming includes Free Puppet Library improv performances, collaboration with Butoh performance by world-renowned dancer Mari Osanai (2025) and New Moon Play House (2024), an immersive group exhibition featuring Polly Apfelbaum and many other beloved New England artists.

She is also one of the cofounder and a sister of Sisters Body, a beloved microbiome-friendly hair and body line that Vogue wrote, “will change the way you shower,” donates a portion of its profits to reproductive rights.

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 Biology

  • Artist 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.

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.