Betty Kuntiwa Pumani

Betty Kuntiwa Pumani is an Aboriginal Australian artist from Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara in South Australia. Her paintings have won several awards, including the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award and the 2017 Wynne Prize for landscape art.

Pumani is one of the traditional owners of the Indigenous Protected Area of Antara, which is located south of the Everard Ranges. She is one of several Antara artists who live and show their work in Mimili, South Australia, including her mother Kunmanara (Milatjari) Pumani and her daughter Josina Nyarpingku Pumani.

In 2007 she began painting at the Mimili Maku Art Centre.

Awards In 2016, Pumani won the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA) $5,000 general painting prize with a depiction of Antara. Olsen's comments "caused a storm of justified outrage", and art critic Susan McCulloch responded to by publishing a brief history of Antara and Aboriginal Dreaming.

In 2020, a diptych by Pumani and her daughter Marina Pumani Brown was a NATSIAA finalist.