Amrita Corinne Stützle is an Austrian-American artist and educator with a focus on lens-based media.
Her work investigates the continued presence of historical events concerning gender, ritual, labor, and environment.
Contact
Education
2021 MFA, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, NY
2014 BFA, Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse, NY
2012 Study Abroad, Art History focus, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany
Awards + Grants
2023 JGS Fellowship for Photography Award, NYFA
2021 Halpern-Rogath Independent Travel Grant, The University of Pennsylvania
2020 Guernsey Photography Festival, Student Photography Competition, runner-up
2020 Student Arts Innovation Grant, The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation
2020 Lenscratch Student Prize, honorable mention
2019 Departmental Grant, The University of Pennsylvania
2014 Light Work, Transmedia Photography Annual, Best of Show
Exhibitions
2025 Overture: 2025 Faculty Survey, Warehouse Gallery, Syracuse, NY
2023 The Gardens of the West, Holland Project Gallery, Reno, NV
2022 Fragments, Facts, and Fictions, Holland Project Gallery, Reno, NV
2021 Double Feature, UPenn MFA Thesis Exhibition, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, PA
2020 RPS 162, Royal Photographic Society House Bristol, Bristol, UK
RPS 162, Oriel Art Gallery, Theatr Clwyd, Mold, Wales
RPS 162, Beverley Art Gallery, Beverley, UK
William Way LGBTQ Center Student Art Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
2019 Flash Forward 2019, Magenta Foundation
2018 Looking at You: Intimate Portraiture, Photo-Emphasis, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA
The Family of No Man, Cosmos Arles Books, Arles, France
2017 Not for Sale, Art Slope Festival, New York, NY
2016 Cloudlands, Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse NY
Generation XX, Girl on Girl, Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, NY
2015 Sad Girls Club, Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, NY
2014 BFA Art Photography Senior Thesis Exhibition, Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, NY
Transmedia Photography Annual, Light Work, Best of Show, Syracuse, NY
Selected Publications/ Editorial Work
2018-25 The New York Times, Freelance Photographer
2025 Society Magazine, Freelance Photographer
2024 Zeit Magazine, Freelance Photographer
2021 The Financial Times, Freelance Photographer
Print Publications
Flash Forward 2019, Magenta Foundation, 2019
Ain’t Bad, Issue #14, August 2019
Oranbeg Press, Oranbeg Net 2.6, September 2017
Screenings
2023 The Gardens of the West, Holland Project Gallery, Reno, NV
Residencies
2018 Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts , Ithaca, NY
Bibliography (online)
Blust, Erica, Overture, 2025 Faculty Survey, January 2025
Aronof, Amy, Announcing the 2023 JGS Fellowship for Photography Recipients, NYFA, September, 2023.
Stützle, Amrita, Photographers on Photographers: Amrita Stützle in Conversation with Meryl Meisler,
Lenscratch, August, 2021.
MFA Index: Amrita Stützle, May 2021
Dolezal, Antone/ Fish, Tracy, Fragments, Facts, and Ficttions: The Cinematic Photograph,
The Holland Project, August 2022
5 Essential Films, Amrita Stützle, The Holland Project, September 2022
Shepard, Louisa, Making Art in a Pandemic: MFA Student Amrita Stützle, Weitzman News, January, 2021.
Eisworth, Kellye, Amrita Stützle: The 2020 Lenscratch Student Prize Winner Honorable Mention,
Lenscratch, July, 2020.
Meet the Photographers, RPS 162, The Royal Photographic Society, 2020.
Photo of the Day, Don’t Take Pictures, September, 2020.
Ranz, Adam, Amrita Stützle, Ain’t Bad, March, 2020.
Flash Forward 2019, Series: Maiden, Mother, Crone, November, 2019.
Looking at You: Intimate Portraiture, Photo-Emphasis, September 2018.
Amrita Stützle, Fotofilmic
Amrita Stützle, Mossfull, June, 2016.
Portfolio Reviews
2020 Photolucida, Critical Mass, finalist
2018 NY Times Portfolio Review, participant
Juror
2024 JGS/ NYFA Fellowhship for Photography
2017-18 Artist-In-Residence Program, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
Teaching Experience
2025 Adjunct Professor, APH 564 Photobook: Image/Sequence, Syracuse University
2023-25 Adjunct Professor, FMA 351 Special Topics: Cinematic Cities, Syracuse University
2021-25 Adjunct Professor, FMA 153 Making Media: Fundamentals, Syracuse University
2021-23 Adjunct Professor, Special Topics (Ghostly Matters/ Architecture and Film), Syracuse University
2021-22 Adjunct Professor, Introduction to Digital Photography, SUNY Oswego
2021 Adjunct Professor, Digital Photography, Munson-Williams Proctor Arts Institute
2021-23 Adjunct Professor, Studio Concepts, Syracuse University
2021 Teaching Assistant, Digital Photography, University of Pennsylvania
2021 Teaching Assistant, Digital Photography, University of Pennsylvania
2021 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Drawing, University of Pennsylvania
2021 Substitute Teacher, Syracuse City School District
2020 Teaching Assistant, Photography and Landscape, University of Pennsylvania
2020 Teaching Assistant, Graduate Seminar, University of Pennsylvania
2020 Teaching Assistant, The Chinese Body, University of Pennsylvania
2019-20 Workshop Instructor, Digital Beginnings, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center
2019-20 Workshop Instructor, Advanced Camera Techniques, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center
2019 Worshop Instructor, Composition Crash Course, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center
2019 Teaching Assistant, Photography Practices, University of Pennsylvania
2015-19 Class Instructor, Photoshop, Beginner-Advanced, Light Work
2015-19 Workshop Instructor, Studio Lighting, Light Work
2015-19 Workshop Instructor, Black & White Darkroom, Light Work
2015-19 Workshop + Class Instructor, Small and Large Format Printing, Light Work
2015-19 Workshop Instructor, Best Scanning Practices, Light Work
2018 Workshop Instructor, Hand-tinting B&W Silver Gelatin Prints, Light Work
2014-16 Summer Camp Instructor, photography camp, Jewish Community Center
2013 Teaching Assistant, Photography Literacy Project
Non-Profit/ Additional Work Experience
2022- Associate Video Producer, Syracuse University
2020-21 Graduate Lecturer, ICA Philadelphia
2019-20 Printmaker, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center
2019 Exhibition Coordinator, Slought
2016-19 Lab Manager, Light Work
Freelance Work Experience
2020-21 Artist Assistant, Ken Lum
2014-16 Artist Assistant, Doug Dubois
2013-14 Artist Assistant, JoAnn Walters