Baua Devi is a Mithila painting artist from Jitwarpur village of Madhubani District in Bihar.

It is recognized as a series of complex geometric and linear patterns traced on the walls of a house's inner chambers.

[4] In 2015, one of her paintings was gifted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Mayor of Hanover, Stefan Schosstok on his visit to India.

[5] Over the past five decades, Madhubani art has grown in prominence and Baua Devi's work has won critical acclaim[6][7]—she was the only woman artist from India to show at the Magiciens de la Terre in 1989 at the Centre Pompidou.

[9][10] Baua Devi uses handmade paper and natural colours for her paintings, predominantly using black, yellow, red and white in her palette.