Nizakat Ali Depar (born 1985) is a visual artist currently based between Jamshoro and Karachi, Pakistan. He completed his BFA from the National College of Arts, Lahore in 2008 specialising in Miniature Painting. Later, Nizakat went on to pursue and complete an MA in Visual Arts from the National College of Arts, Lahore in 2019.

Before learning from any formalised art institute, Nizakat’s basic introduction to the art of making visuals began from local signboard painters. After completing his formal education in art, he revisited the making of visuals and surfaces, and delved further into material exploration, which led to his making unconventional surfaces and corresponding imagery. The surfaces Nizakat uses in his paintings are found objects such as travelling tickets, printed papers and others; Nizakat has gone as far as making wasli from maps printed on paper.

Unique visual imagery such as wandering dogs, thorns, encountered portraits of travelling persons and many other found images, which make up his distinctive style, help infuse metaphorical meanings to the artworks he makes. The core point of inspiration for Nizakat is that he attempts to give value to otherwise ignored subject matter, even though the size of the paintings is rather small, the efforts and passions are superior and reach far deeper when one sees a piece close up. Currently, the artist is still looking to his surroundings and exploring new ways to make extraordinary, spontaneous natural materials and images.

Select artworks of Nizakat’s are housed within the permanent collection of Ambiance Boutique Art Hotels.