[10] From 1987-89, Nilima organised and participated in the exhibition titled 'Through The Looking Glass' with her contemporaries, the women artists Nalini Malani, Madhvi Parekh, and Arpita Singh.

[14][15] Group exhibitions include documenta 14, Athens and Kassel (2017); Revisiting Beauty, Gallery Threshold, New Delhi[16] (2016); 48th Annual Exhibition 2015, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Calcutta[17] (2015); Aesthetic Bind | Floating World, Chemould Prescott Rd, Colaba[18] (2014); Touched by Bhupen, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Colaba[19] (2013); and Tracing Time - Works On Paper, Bodhi Art, Mumbai[20] (2009).

The exhibition presents travelling as a research method and artistic techniques for her to reinterpret material cultures and histories across national borders.

Those include stencils, drawing, painting, installation, large scrolls, theatre set designs and children books illustration.

[25] Nilima believes the visual aesthetics of Dunhuang cave has influenced her own creative practice as she often infused shifting perspectives and scales into her own works.