Trijoto Abdullah

Tridjoto Abdullah (Enhanced Spelling: Trijoto Abdullah, 1910s – 8 January 1989) was an Indonesian sculptor. The daughter of the painter Abdullah Suriosubroto, Trijoto entered the arts as a model in 1933. She took up sculpture that year, studying under the architect Charles Prosper Wolff Schoemaker and the doctor Max Ulrich Thierfelder. She held her only exhibition in 1939, alongside her brother Basuki. She sculpted through the 1950s, working mostly on commissions with nationalist themes, but changed media after sculpting aggravated her asthma. Trijoto has been identified as Indonesia's first female sculptor as well as its first professional sculptor, but has received little academic attention. Her sole surviving sculpture is Monumen Banteng Ketaton (the Ketaton Bull Monument) in Madiun.