Betty Kuntiwa Pumani is an Aboriginal Australian artist from Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara in South Australia.
[1] Pumani is one of the traditional owners of the Indigenous Protected Area of Antara, which is located south of the Everard Ranges.
[4] In 2016, Pumani won the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA) $5,000 general painting prize with a depiction of Antara.
[1] This win prompted criticism from John Olsen, a former winner of the Wynne prize and former judge for the related Archibald Prize in portraiture, who objected to the quality of that year's winners and questioned whether Pumani's Antara qualified as a landscape painting.
[5] 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.