As a child, she and her family were forced to flee her home province to live in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Creating art that displays the human body like Malina's motif, the skeleton in a burqa, is seen as idol worship.

Because of this her parents went the distance and locked Malina in their house for nearly a year, which had the opposite effect they were hoping for.

In December 2019, Malina intended to hold a lecture on the colonization of art in Rome but it was canceled.

[7] While Malina was home for the ten months, she felt she lost her identity, and it had a large impact.

In one exhibit in Kandahar, she attracted the attention of the Governor, Tooryalai Wesa, who praised her work hoping that "more women would do the same.

"[10] Suliman's art earned her an invitation to President Hamid Karzai's palace to showcase her work in a private viewing.

In 2015, Malina participated in a painting and sculpture exhibition at the French Cultural Center in Kabul.

The same year, Suliman's work was the focus of a solo exhibition at the Art Represent gallery in Bethnal Green, London.

The show, entitled 'Beyond the Veil: A Decontextualization', saw the installation of a number of burqas, each inscribed with the wishes and aspirations of Afghan citizens in a traditional form of calligraphy.

[12] A movie released in 2016 called 'Tasting the Moon' featuring Malina Suliman, Shamsia Hassani, and Nabila Horakhsh.

One of her more morbid and darker works includes a gruesome scene in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.

“Before a child is born, the parents are already thinking that a son can support them and a daughter can be married off to a wealthy suitor.