Marina Joesoef, born Marina Sastrowardoyo, is an Indonesian painter, photographer, and artist. She exhibited in Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur and gained public attention after winning the 1976 Miss Teen competition organized by Gadis magazine.
Background
Ethnicity:
Her paternal family traces its ancestry in Java to the fifteenth century.
Marina Joesoef was born Marina Sastrowardoyo on March 24, 1959, in Jakarta, Indonesia. Her father, Sumarsono Sastrowardoyo, was an Indonesian physician and urologist, and her paternal grandfather, Sutejo Sastrowardoyo, connected the family’s ancestry with Java over many generations.
During the early 1960s, she lived with her parents and siblings in Los Angeles and Leiden while her father pursued advanced medical training, including study at the University of California, Los Angeles. She attended schools in Santa Monica and Leiden before returning to Indonesia. She is fluent in Dutch and English and speaks Javanese and Indonesian.
Education
Joesoef attended schools in Santa Monica, California, and Leiden, the Netherlands, during her family’s years abroad. Her education therefore extended across American and Dutch settings before she returned to Indonesia. No university degree is documented.
Career
Joesoef has worked as a painter and photographer. Her artistic activity has been associated with Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur, and she has held exhibitions in both cities. As a painter, she is included among Indonesian artists and painters whose work forms part of the country’s modern visual-art landscape.
Before concentrating on her artistic career, Joesoef won the first prize in the Miss Teen pageant organized by Gadis magazine in 1976. The competition brought her early public recognition in Indonesia, while her later work as a painter and photographer established her continuing association with the arts.
Achievements
Joesoef won the first prize in the Miss Teen pageant organized by Gadis magazine in 1976 after returning to Indonesia. The result gave her early public recognition before her later work as a painter and photographer.
Membership
Joesoef served as a member of the Dewan Kerajinan Nasional, Indonesia’s national crafts council, during the 1999–2004 term. The council connects government, cultural, and craft-sector representatives in support of Indonesian handicrafts and creative production.
Served as a member during the 1999–2004 term.
Dewan Kerajinan Nasional
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Indonesia
1999 - 2004
Interests
Joesoef speaks Dutch, English, Javanese, and Indonesian.
Connections
Joesoef was married to Iwan V. Joesoef. They had two sons, Marwan Arie Joesoef and Nurfahd S. Joesoef, and a daughter, Tiara R. Joesoef.
Her father was Sumarsono Sastrowardoyo, a physician, urologist, and memoirist. Her brother Aswin W. Sastrowardoyo was a physician and formerly a guitarist and vocalist with the Indonesian music group Chaseiro from 1979 to 1983. The actress Dian Sastrowardoyo is her niece.
Father:
Sumarsono Sastrowardoyo
Physician, urologist, and memoirist.
husband:
Iwan V. Joesoef
Brother:
Aswin W. Sastrowardoyo
Physician and former guitarist and vocalist with Chaseiro from 1979 to 1983.
aunt:
Dian Sastrowardoyo
Indonesian actress and model.
Son:
Marwan Arie Joesoef
Son:
Nurfahd S. Joesoef
Daughter:
Tiara R. Joesoef
References
Marina Joesoef
Biographical reference documenting Joesoef’s birth, artistic work, education in Santa Monica and Leiden, family connections, languages, and 1976 pageant victory.
