Layla Diba served as the associate curator and of Asian Art and as a curator of Islamic Art at the Brooklyn Museum. She has been an art advisor of various organizations such as, the Metropolitan Museum of Arts. She is a member of Encyclopædia Iranica’s board of trustees and the Soudavar Memorial Foundation. In December 2009, she held the role “scholar-in-residence” at Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design.
In 2013, Layla S. Diba and Fereshteh Daftari co-curated the exhibition, Iran Modern (2013) shown at the Asia Society in New York. She was married to the businessman Mahmoud T. Diba, who was among the victims of Swissair Flight 111 crash in 1998. Diba has a son. She currently lives in New York City, New York.
