Waqas is a multidisciplinary artist. His art practices a blend of theatre, performative storytelling, and photography. He is the founder and director of دیپ نائو (Deep Now ), a social enterprise that works for the provision of education through the medium of arts. He completed his MPhil in Education Leadership and Management from LUMS. He is the recipient of the 2020 Shaila and Tahir Andrabi Leadership & Service Award as well as the 2023 Prince Claus Seeds Cultural Practitioner Award.

In digital media art Waqas’s practices revolve around photographic and documentary works. He has been working on a long-term documentary project on the folk toys of Punjab. He worked on a documentary for Lahore Biennale Foundation Virtual Museum titled, “Dastan-e-Urdu”; the work documented 75 years of Urdu in Pakistan. In performance art, he has been doing Street Theatre for the last ten years as well as conducting performative storytelling under the banner of دیپ نائو. He initiated public theatre performances at LUMS in collaboration with the Gurmani Centre of Languages and Literature. He organized, directed and produced short plays to be perform at Khokha Natak.

He writes op-eds and book reviews in different magazines. His poem, ‘I Stand on the Edge of Nothingness’, was selected in the 2021 Guwahati Grand Poetry Festival. His translation works (poems, short stories) have appeared in a leading Punjabi magazine.