Eva Zasloff is a family physician and painter whose work spans medicine, birth, and biology. As founder of Tova Health and an artist working with natural materials, Eva brings a deeply embodied perspective on care, creation, and community.

As a doctor, she focuses her care on pediatric newborn and postpartum medicine. In 2016, she created Tova Health, a fourth trimester home-based model of care, covered by insurance, where families receive integrated pediatric and maternal medical care in their homes for the first few months of life. The practice has now cared for over 600 families in the greater Boston area. She is a leader in the field of women’s health and innovation and often acts as an advisor and board member for many projects including Catalyst Conversations, Designing Motherhood and the Breastpump Hackathon at the MIT media lab.

Zasloff’s art addresses issues of biology, birth and metamorphosis; often focusing on the transitional moments in a life. Her work is experimental and gestural— explores natural and home based material with expressive forms. Her work has been exhibited in many galleries and academic spaces in the greater New England area and she is currently honored to be a 2026 Scholar at the WSRC at Brandeis University with a focus on Art + Our Bodies  | Explorations of the Newborn, Postpartum and Other Transformational Biology.

The Barn at Schwamb Mill is Zasloff’s art studio and also a gathering space where she curates group exhibitions and performances that has been widely received and written about in publications including the Boston Globe, the 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.

She lives in Arlington, MA with her husband Aaron and their three kids- Rafi, Felix and Hugo.

Interior of an artist's studio with abstract artwork on a wooden wall, a turntable, art supplies, and a basket on a desk.

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.

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