Mursal Nazary was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1989. She fled with her family for Russia due the Civil War in 1992. After a year, she and her family left for Germany where they stayed as landed immigrants. In 1998, Mursal and her family immigrated to Toronto, Canada.

Mursal earned her BFA with distinction in Drawing and Painting at OCAD University in Toronto in 2012. In her third year, she was selected to attend the Off-Campus Florence Program in Italy. She completed her formal education with an MFA in Painting at Boston University in 2019. She currently lives and teaches in the United States.