Ed Massey is an American artist who creates sculptures of social critique, paints large-scale public-art, and designs murals to support environmental awareness.

[8] A successful white male is precariously perched atop the ladder at the expense of minorities, including women clambering to break through the proverbial glass-ceiling.

Sculpted on a gilded chessboard, on one side are disparate Americans including lazy students, a jobless man, in-fighting employees, and scrambling scientists who are "losing to the disciplined and homogeneous Japanese,"[3] posed as the opposing threat.

[16] A simultaneous, 5-city showing, Morality/Mortality garnered national headlines, affecting traffic on street-corners in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Washington DC, and Miami.

[6] Each installation included a confrontational artist's note, “The frequent and undeniable horror of sexual assault dictates that the sculpture be exhibited boldly, forthrightly and without apology.

... Few people outside law enforcement officers ever see the immediate aftermath of a sexual assault.” The Los Angeles Times captioned Morality/Mortality, “A Public Forum for a Private Horror.”[17] Los Angeles Times' Suzanne Muchnic editorialized, "Artist Ed Massey and feminist activist Peg Yorkin have joined forces to provoke a coast-to-coast discussion," and "Massey is a veteran of socially critical art.

"[20] Syncopation (2004) is a 7,500 square foot, 11-section mural that beautified the Culver City Gateway community outside of Sony Pictures Studios and Kirk Douglas Theater in Los Angeles, California from 2004 to 2012.

The San Francisco Chronicle said the mural “unleash[es] a new hip look” to the former Getty-Trust property, “a colorburst on the Sunset Boulevard façade to greet drivers, joggers, walkers, and Chabad visitors.”[23] Portraits of Hope (POH) (1995), co-founded by the Massey brothers, began as a volunteer-driven, non-profit, creative art-therapy program for children in pediatric facilities.