She studied with Shinya Tsukamoto and Shinji Aoyama as tutors at the Department of Moving Images and Performing Arts at Tama Art University and graduated in 2014. Aya then enrolled in the Master's program at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2019 with Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Nobuhiro Suwa as tutors. Her short film The Elephant Died was selected by the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and We Don’t Go Home was screened at Brive Film Festival.