[4] González frequently participated in the salons of the Montevideo Engraving Club and in the collective exhibitions of the Union of Contemporary Plastic Artists.
She exhibited her work individually both nationally and internationally, in Buenos Aires, Havana, Panama, Puerto Rico, Brazil, and elsewhere.
[1][8] In 1953, together with Nicolás Loureiro, Susana Turiansky and other artists, Leonilda González founded the Montevideo Engraving Club, in order to disseminate and democratize access to art through graphic techniques that allow reproducing works in large print runs at low cost.
González worked as a woodcut teacher and actively participated in the editions, exhibitions, and engraving shows of this entity, of which she was a member of the board of directors from 1953 until she left the country during the civic-military dictatorship in 1976.
During her exile, between 1976 and 1986, she settled first in Peru and then in Mexico, representing the Engraving Club abroad in her travels through various countries of Latin America.