Work
About
Mursal Nazary was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. She fled with her family to Moscow, Russia, at the start of the Afghan Civil War in 1992. Shortly after, they travelled to Dortmund, Germany in 1993. Seeking a long-term home, her family was accepted for immigration to Canada in 1997.
Mursal received her BFA in Drawing and Painting at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada. In 2011 she attended the OCAD University Off-campus Program in Florence, Italy for her third year. Mursal received her MFA in Painting at Boston University in 2019 and has remained in the United States since.
Mursal has presented her work in Belgium, France, Italy, Canada and the United States. She continues to paint, draw and make prints in New Hampshire.
Education
- 2017–19 MFA in Painting, Boston University, Boston, MA
- 2008–12 BFA with distinction in Drawing and Painting, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
- 2010–11 OCAD University Florence Off-campus Studies Program, Florence, Italy
Solo Exhibitions
- 2026 RVCC Projects, Claremont, NH (forthcoming)
- 2018 Tracing Time, Commonwealth Gallery, Boston University, MA
- 2017 Relations to Nature, La Boutique Noire, Toronto, ON
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2026 Enfield Shaker Museum, Enfield, NH (forthcoming)
- 2026 RVCC Projects Summer Exhibition, Claremont, NH (forthcoming)
- 2025 Teacher's Exhibition, AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH
- 2023 Home, Lexington Arts Center, Lexington, MA
- 2021 Objectivity, Gallery 263, curated by Josephine Halvorson, Cambridge, MA
- 2021 Annual Member's Exhibition, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
- 2019 Proximity, curated by Josephine Halvorson & Didier William, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, NY
- 2019 BU MFA's Painting and Sculpture Exhibition II, Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA
- 2019 Art at Sloane House, curated by Dr. Beverly Brown, Sloane House, Brookline, MA
Awards & Residencies
- 2018 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Greece Summer Residency, Mycenae, Greece
- 2017 JSS in Civita Residency, Civita Castellana, Italy
- 2016 JSS in Civita Residency, Civita Castellana, Italy
- 2014–15 Painting Residency with Gundula Jacobs, Maine-et-Loire, France
- 2014 Winter at the Louvre, Studio Escalier, Paris, France
- 2013 Drawing Artist-in-Residence, Flemish Classical Atelier, Bruges, Belgium
- 2012 Honorable Mention, 401 Richmond Career Launcher Prize, OCAD University
Teaching
- 2025 Observational Drawing; Painting from Observation, AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH
- 2025 Drawing Natural Forms, Lexington Arts Center, Lexington, MA
- 2024 Drawing, Osher at Dartmouth, co-taught with Andrea Stix Wasserman, Lebanon, NH
- 2023 Drawing in the Open Air: Introduction to Drawing, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
- 2022 Introduction to Drawing I, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
- 2021 Watercolor Theory and Technique, New Art Center, Newton, MA
- 2021 Still Life Painting Workshop, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
- 2020 Painting Workshop, Youth Cultural Camp, Toronto Council Fire Native Cultural Centre, Enniskillen, ON
- 2020 Beginners Drawing, Brookline Art Center, Brookline, MA
- 2017–19 Teaching Assistant: Painting I; Painting II; Painting III, Boston University, MA
Bibliography
- 2021 An Afternoon with Artist Mursal Nazary, Tatum Dooley, Canadian Art Forecast
- 2021 A New Shade of Blue: YlnMn, Tatum Dooley & Even Nicole Brown, Canadian Art Forecast
- 2019 MFA 2019 Thesis Catalogue, Boston University School of the Visual Arts
- 2012 Open-Ended, Open-Minded, OCAD University Graduate Catalogue
- 2009 The Afghan Girl, First Impressions Anthology, Richmond Hill Public Library
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