Mursal Nazary was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1990. In 1993 she and her family fled from Afghanistan for Russia as refugees due to the Civil War. After a year in Russia, she and her family left for Germany and remained as landed immigrants. In 1998, Mursal and her family immigrated to Toronto, Canada.

Mursal earned her BFA in Drawing and Painting at OCAD University in Toronto in 2012. In her third year, she was awarded a scholarship to attend the Florence Program. She completed her MFA in Painting at Boston University in 2019. 

Mursal has presented her work in several countries including Belgium, France, Italy and the United States. She lives in New Hampshire, U.S.