Patterns in Nature Opens at the Missouri Botanical Garden
HYBYCOZO opens its largest exhibition to date at the Missouri Botanical Garden, with over fifty artworks across twenty-one locations in St. Louis.
ST. LOUIS — HYBYCOZO has opened Patterns in Nature at the Missouri Botanical Garden, the studio's largest exhibition to date. Over fifty artworks are sited across twenty-one locations throughout the Garden, on view from April 2026.
Works were placed in response to the Garden itself, reflected in water, set against tree lines and threaded through paths, so the geometry cut into each sculpture sits alongside the growth patterns around it. Six works were designed specifically for the Garden and its living collections.
The sculptures are powder-coated stainless steel with internal LED lighting. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings the exhibition continues as Patterns in Nature: LightForm, with the works illuminated and live music through the Garden.
The exhibition was developed with the Missouri Botanical Garden.
About HYBYCOZO
HYBYCOZO is a public art studio founded by Serge Beaulieu and Yelena Filipchuk and based in Los Angeles. It is best known for botanical garden exhibitions that set illuminated steel sculpture among living collections, including the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix and Descanso Gardens in California. Each work is perforated stainless steel lit from within, so the garden reads differently after dark.
HYBYCOZO to Present the Dallas Arboretum's Winter Exhibition
The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden will present HYBYCOZO from November 2027 to February 2028, succeeding the garden’s 12 Days of Christmas gazebos.
DALLAS — The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden will present a winter exhibition by HYBYCOZO across the garden from November 2027 to February 2028.
The announcement was made by Arboretum President and Chief Executive Sabina Carr at a Dallas Parks and Recreation Board meeting on 26 March 2026. The exhibition succeeds the garden's long-running 12 Days of Christmas gazebos.
Further details will follow.
About HYBYCOZO
Serge Beaulieu and Yelena Filipchuk founded HYBYCOZO in 2014. The Los Angeles studio is known for seasonal light exhibitions and winter nighttime activations in botanical gardens and arboretums, pairing illuminated steel sculpture with living landscapes. Long-running shows include Enchanted Forest of Light at Descanso Gardens, alongside exhibitions at the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Desert Botanical Garden.
Crystal Bridges Acquires Congruence for Its Permanent Collection
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has acquired Congruence, commissioned in 2023 for the museum’s Sky Terrace, into its permanent collection.
BENTONVILLE, ARKANSAS — Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art acquired Congruence by HYBYCOZO into its permanent collection in November 2025. The museum commissioned the work in 2023 for the Sky Terrace above Campus Parking.
Congruence stands twenty-one feet. Twelve truncated octahedrons stack into a central tower, with four further forms placed separately on the deck. The truncated octahedron is a fourteen-faced solid that packs in three dimensions without leaving gaps, and the stacked arrangement follows fluorite, a mineral that grows upward in interlocking cubes.
The work is powder-coated stainless steel with internal LED lighting, twenty-one by twelve by twelve feet.
About HYBYCOZO
Work by HYBYCOZO, the Los Angeles studio of Serge Beaulieu and Yelena Filipchuk, is held in museum collections including Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University. The studio has exhibited at the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery, the Oakland Museum of California and the Cincinnati Art Museum. Its illuminated steel sculptures are built for permanent outdoor installation.
Nexus Opens at the Tanweer Festival in Sharjah
HYBYCOZO unveils Nexus, a monumental arch built for the Tanweer Festival in the Sharjah desert.
SHARJAH, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — HYBYCOZO has unveiled Nexus, a monumental arch built for the Tanweer Festival and sited in the Sharjah desert to be passed beneath.
The geometry follows muqarnas, the stacked honeycomb vaulting of Islamic architecture, which resolves a curved surface into hundreds of small faceted cells set at varying angles. It is one of the few historical ornamental systems built from repeating three-dimensional units, with the ornament carried in the structure of the vault itself.
The work is powder-coated stainless steel panels with internal LED lighting, assembled into an arched span and engineered for desert conditions.
Nexus was built for the Tanweer Festival in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, and the work of Sheikha Bodour.
About HYBYCOZO
Founded in 2014 by Serge Beaulieu and Yelena Filipchuk, HYBYCOZO is a Los Angeles studio working internationally on large-scale outdoor light art for festivals, civic sites and cultural institutions. Its sculptures are perforated stainless steel with internal LED lighting, engineered for permanent installation in conditions from the Sharjah desert to the Pacific Northwest. Permanent works stand in Dubai, Istanbul, Las Vegas and San Francisco.
Light Bloom Opens at the Desert Botanical Garden
Light Bloom, a solo exhibition across the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, ran from October 2024 to April 2025 with works sited among saguaro and agave.
PHOENIX — HYBYCOZO opened Light Bloom, a solo exhibition across the Desert Botanical Garden, in October 2024. The exhibition ran through April 2025, with works sited among saguaro and agave.
Some sculptures are mirror-polished and return the surrounding desert; others are perforated, so after dark the sculpture shadows shine. The works are powder-coated stainless steel and mirror-polished stainless steel with LED lighting.
The exhibition was presented with the Desert Botanical Garden and curated by Laura Spaulding Best.
About HYBYCOZO
Touring light art exhibitions for botanical gardens and arboretums are a core part of HYBYCOZO's practice. The Los Angeles studio, run by Serge Beaulieu and Yelena Filipchuk, sites illuminated sculpture among living collections so the work shifts with the season and the hour. Garden exhibitions include the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis and the Dallas Arboretum.
Aurum Unveiled at Mint Plaza, San Francisco
A stellated dodecahedron commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission has been installed on Mint Plaza, beside the Old Mint.
SAN FRANCISCO — HYBYCOZO has installed Aurum on Mint Plaza, a permanent public sculpture commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission. The work was installed in October 2024; the studio was selected in 2018.
The form is a stellated dodecahedron, twelve pentagonal faces extended outward until the planes meet again in points, with geometric patterns tessellating across the surface. The title is the Latin word for gold. The work traces gold's formation through nucleosynthesis in massive stars, confirmed in 2017 when the LIGO experiment detected gravitational waves from a stellar collision. Mint Plaza adjoins the Old Mint, which once held a third of the nation's gold reserves.
The sculpture is powder-coated stainless steel sheets welded into twelve cones with LED lighting, measuring approximately 140 by 162 inches and weighing close to 2,000 pounds, with a UV-protective, graffiti-resistant finish.
The commission was made through the City's Art Enrichment Ordinance and sponsored by Martin Building Company.
About HYBYCOZO
Civic plaza artwork and permanent public art commissions make up much of HYBYCOZO's work. The studio, founded by Serge Beaulieu and Yelena Filipchuk in Los Angeles, delivers projects through percent-for-art programs including the San Francisco Arts Commission's Art Enrichment Ordinance and Multnomah County's Percent for Art Program. Works are perforated stainless steel with internal lighting, specified for daily public use and long-term outdoor siting.
DIMENSIONS Opens at Sensorio
Forty-four polyhedra cover a hillside at Sensorio in Paso Robles, three years in development and opened in the studio’s tenth year.
PASO ROBLES, CALIFORNIA — HYBYCOZO has opened DIMENSIONS at Sensorio, a permanent field of forty-four polyhedra covering a hillside. The work took three years to develop and opened in May 2024, the studio's tenth year.
Four of the sculptures are large enough to enter, and the central form holds twenty people. Each is lit from within, and the perforations print onto the ground and onto neighboring forms across the field.
The works are powder-coated stainless steel, formed in flat panels and assembled into closed polyhedra, each with internal LED lighting.
Sensorio commissioned the work. Lighting design was developed in partnership with Lightswitch, and Allen Hulsey composed a thirty-three-minute score that plays across the field.
About HYBYCOZO
Immersive nighttime art at landscape scale is the signature of HYBYCOZO, the Los Angeles studio founded by Serge Beaulieu and Yelena Filipchuk. Perforated steel and internal LED lighting throw cut patterns across the ground, turning a site into a different place after sunset. Permanent installations include DIMENSIONS at Sensorio in Paso Robles, alongside works in public plazas, museum grounds and botanical gardens.
Stratosphere Enters the Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection
The Ulrich Museum of Art has acquired Stratosphere, a twelve-foot gold sphere commissioned for the Wichita State University campus.
WICHITA, KANSAS — The Ulrich Museum of Art has acquired Stratosphere by HYBYCOZO as the eighty-sixth work in the Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection. The sculpture was commissioned for the Wichita State University campus and is sited near Wayne and Kay Woolsey Hall.
Stratosphere is a twelve-foot sphere in stainless steel with a gold powder-coated finish. The form follows Buckminsterfullerene, a carbon molecule named for Buckminster Fuller, whose geodesic dome it resembles. Fuller developed the Dymaxion House in Wichita in the mid-1940s, making the reference local as well as structural.
The pattern cut into each facet draws on wheat stalks, aircraft, wind motion and the stars of the Kansas state motto. The sculpture is lit from within, and after dark those cuts extend into large shadow patterns across the surrounding ground.
The work was acquired by museum purchase with additional funds from Woolsey Hall.
About HYBYCOZO
Permanent outdoor sculpture for university campuses, museum grounds and civic plazas is the focus of HYBYCOZO, the Los Angeles studio of Serge Beaulieu and Yelena Filipchuk. Its work sits in the Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection at Wichita State University and the collection of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Each sculpture is perforated stainless steel, lit from within so it reads differently by day and by night.
HYBYCOZO in No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man at the Renwick Gallery
HYBYCOZO showed inside the Renwick Gallery and outdoors in the Golden Triangle, the only artists in the exhibition to do both. Golden Spike was acquired by the district.
WASHINGTON — HYBYCOZO was featured in No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man at the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery, on view from 30 March 2018 to 21 January 2019. The studio was the only artist in the exhibition with work both inside the gallery and outdoors in the surrounding Golden Triangle neighbourhood.
The exhibition brought large-scale work from the desert gathering to Washington for the first time, taking over the entire Renwick building and extending into the streets around it. Inside, three polyhedral sculptures filled an interior room, lit from within so the cut patterns carried across the walls and floor.
Outside, Golden Spike stood in the Golden Triangle as part of No Spectators: Beyond the Renwick, a collaboration between the museum and the Golden Triangle Business Improvement District. The work draws on Penrose tiling, a non-periodic pattern built from two shapes whose proportions approximate the golden ratio.
The Golden Triangle Business Improvement District acquired Golden Spike, and it stands at the Connecticut Avenue Overlook as part of the district's public art collection.
About HYBYCOZO
HYBYCOZO has exhibited at the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery and holds work in public collections including the Golden Triangle Business Improvement District in Washington, DC. The studio was founded by Serge Beaulieu and Yelena Filipchuk and is based in Los Angeles. Its illuminated steel sculpture appears in museum exhibitions and as permanent public art in plazas and parks across the United States and internationally.