Shayla Su began her ceramics training at the University of California at Berkeley, where she also studied Art and Architecture. She graduated with a B.A. in Art History in 1991.

Through this training, she came to believe that all aspects of art should be equally valued: concept, quality, technique, medium, function and design. This sense of balance, combined with her personal experiences, is what characterizes her work and forms her ongoing inspiration.

The collections on this site represent a shift from a focus on wheel-thrown wares to an interest in slab work, and with new motifs. In them, her architectural background emerges.  Simple, elegant and functional, Shayla's work strives to convey a modern experience, where form and function meet in sleek new designs where subtlety is the key ingredient.

Shayla has participated in numerous exhibitions throughout the 1990s until the present. Recent exhibitions have included Vitrified Clay National: Form & Content, juried exhibition, Rockport, Texas, Illuminations, a joint exhibition at Ruby’s Clay Studio & Gallery, San Francisco, Blues: Tonality II, juried exhibition, Tierra Solida Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA, Recent Works joint exhibition with Phil Simon, Christensen-Heller Gallery, Oakland, CA, the Silver Celebration Art Auction, benefiting the Muscular Dystrophy Association, San Francisco, CA, and Furniture as Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA (all 2004). In 2005, Shayla set up her own, in her words, “studio in the garage,” and participated in the wholesale show at the Philadelphia Buyer's Market of American Craft.