Marina Joesoef

Marina Joesoef — born Marina Sastrowardoyo March 24, 1959 in Jakarta, Indonesia — is an Indonesian artist. She is a painter having recent exhibitions in Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur,[1] Malaysia. She is also known as Marina Joesoef Sastrowardoyo,[1] though Joesoef is her married surname.

In the early 1960s, Marina joined her parents and brothers to live in Los Angeles and Leiden, Netherlands, where her father, Dr. Sumarsono Sastrowardoyo, studied urology for six years, including a stint at University of California, Los Angeles. Marina attended schools in Santa Monica and Leiden.

After returning home to Indonesia, in 1976 she participated in a Miss Teen pageant organized by Gadis magazine and won the first prize.

Family

Ms. Joesoef is the eldest daughter of Dr. Sumarsono Sastrowardoyo, a physician, surgeon and memoirist, and the late Ina Sastrowardoyo. An older brother, Ariawan Sastrowardoyo, died in 1995. Another brother, Dr. Aswin W. Sastrowardoyo, is a physician who was formerly a guitarist and vocalist with the music group Chaseiro from 1979 to 1983,[2] and a younger sister, Lisa Damayanti Sastrowardoyo (b. 1962).

The actress Dian Sastrowardoyo is a niece of Ms. Joesoef.

She is married to Mr. Iwan V. Joesoef,[3] a businessman, and has two sons Marwan Arie Joesoef (born 26/5/1976), Nurfahd S. Joesoef (born 4/3/1979) and one daughter Tiara R. Joesoef (born 5/7/1999)

Her paternal grandfather, Sutejo Sastrowardoyo, traced the family's ancestry back 18 generations to 15th century Java.

Languages

Ms. Sastrowardoyo is fluent in Dutch and English, as well her native Javanese and Indonesian.

Notes

  1. 1 2 Art Lobby
  2. ↑ Horizon-Line.com article on Chaseiro, 30 March 2001. Accessed 19 February 2007.]
  3. ↑ DaimlerChrysler Indonesia website
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