Liu Bolin
Liu Bolin paints his body, or that of his subjects, into an illusion of invisibility for his photographs of his native China. This could have ended up being a pretty shallow artifice, but I like the way he puts it to use to create a sense of the invisibility of the individual in contemporary China (here), the complex relationship with the Chinese state (here and here for a couple of examples) and its slavish devotion to incessant economic development.
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Liu Bolin has been doing his Hiding in the City series since 2005. It started as a political commentary on the tensions between the Chinese government and their people and the identity an environment gives an individual and vice versa. Liu Bolin will be exhibiting at Eli Klein Fine Art in New York from June 29 – August 28, 2011. Eli Klein Fine Art represents him exclusively in North and South America. More images can be found on http://www.ekfineart.com.