G. Daniel Massad (American, b.1946) is an artist best known for his highly personal pastels. Massad, who has a BA from Princeton and an MA from the University of Chicago, both in English, turned to art in 1979, and studied at the University of Kansas, where he completed an MFA in painting in 1982. His work was first shown in Kansas at the Kellas Gallery in Lawrence the same year, and at the Mulvane Art Center in Topeka and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City in 1983.

Massad began to exhibit regularly in galleries in 1984, with a show at the Rosenfeld Gallery in Philadelphia. He joined Tatischeff & Co. in 1986 and Forum Gallery in 1998, both in New York.

Works by Massad are in the permanent collections of the Arkansas Art Center, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Spencer Museum of Art (University of Kansas), the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the National Museum of American Art, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1997, Massad was given a solo exhibition at the Allentown Art Museum.