&content_abueva=In 1976, he was awarded the status of National Artist of the Philippines by the President Ferdinand Marcos. He was the youngest recipient of the title at age 46.
His works have been installed in different museums here and abroad.
He is considered the Father of Philippine Modern Sculpture.
&content_popup=Have you been to the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City? If you happen to pass by this university, try to look for the UP Faculty Center. There you will see one of Napoleon Abueva's Sculptures called the Nine Muses. This is an elevated sculpture composed of nine nude women doing different things.A native of Cebu. Napoleon Abueva was born in 1930. he was one of the students of the late Guillermo Tolentino. At age 46, he was the youngest National Artist awardee and is considered the Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture.
He has helped shape the local sculpture scene into what it is now. He is skillful in academic representational style or modern abstract. Through this, he has utilized almost all kind of materials from hardwood (molave, acacia, langka wood, ipil, kamagong, palm wood and bamboo) to adobe, metal, stainless steel, cement, marble, bronze, iron, alabaster, coral and brass.
In the 1980, Napoleon Abueva put up a one-man show at the Philippine Center, New York.  His works have been installed in different museums here and abroad, such as "The Sculpture" at the United Nations headquarters in New York City.
Some of the works of Abueva are: Thirty Pieces of Silver, The Transfiguration  found in the Eternal Garden Memorial Park, UP Gateway, Sunburst in the Manila Peninsula Hotel, Manila, Bronze Figure of Teodoro M. Kalaw at the National Library, Manila and National Heroes Shrine in Mount Samat, Bataan.