Mustafa Khan Sherzad was a painter from Bokan. He was born in 1941 in Mahabad. Due to his father's job, they moved to Tabriz and he finished his education in this city. Sherzad was interested in painting from a young age. In 1959, in a painting competition that was held between East Azerbaijan and West Azerbaijan provinces that is Tabriz and Urmia provinces, he won the first prize. That year all the art students of Iran took part in a camping trip that was a painting competition in which Mustafa Sherzad, a young Kurdish artist, won the third prize.

In 1966, Sherzad finished his high school education and began his occupation as a painting teacher at Mahabad Culture and Art Institution and later as an art teacher working at schools.

Mustafa Sherzad became the student of one of the greatest painting teachers of the East part of Kurdistan, Fayzollah Khan Nahid. Sherzad learned the basics of this art under Fayzollah Khan's supervision. He also learned the scientific techniques of painting and he enhanced the content of the regional painting level; later this experience of his became a motivation for Sherzad to choose a particular method of painting.

Sherzad has mostly painted in a realistic method and most of his works are a reflection of the Kurdish society's facts. He saw the world as it is and he chose a piece of this world that is a part of his own world-environment the subject of his paintings. This is why a large part of Sherzad's works are related to the traditions and customs of life in this world. If we discuss this from a socialistic perspective, we can say that Sherzad was an artist who was loyal to a set of social-artistic values. In order to illustrate his interest in such a social value, he had to consider what are called laws and rules for realizing these social values.

These two tasks are reflected in Sherzad's works in a way that he had already established his value system. A system that is based on continuing the traditions of the Kurdish society.

This value system obviously has a special way of managing. These two phenomena can clearly be seen in Sherzad's paintings. For example, in his work, Kurdish Wedding, which is one of his most famous works, the values of this tradition and the ways that it is held can be seen. In his other works, most of the social traditions and customs and the way villagers live in Kurdistan and Mukriyan are painted. This form of painting is very beneficial for preserving the customs. In realistic literature, these phenomena are shown too. For instance, Hassan Qizlji's works are among them.

In addition to the realistic atmosphere, the naturalism, romantic, and expressionist methods can also be seen in Sherzad's works, however, most of his works are in realistic style. When the artist is producing a realistic work, they are looking at the present and past days of society; this is why in Sherzad's works the influence of Western artists cannot be found.

All of Sherzad's artworks were donated to Bokan's city hall museum freely. However, this organization does not pay the slightest importance to them.

Mustafa Sherzad died on October 10, 2023, after working for sixty years as a painter and painting teacher due to illness. Since there is no special place in the cemetery of Bokan for the artists, his body was buried in Burhan Khanaqa as he had requested next to other great men of Mukriyan.