Hao Huifen was born in 1944 in Baoding, Hebei Province. She graduated in 1964 from the middle school attached to the Central Academy of Fine Arts and started to work for the Tianjin People's Art Publishing House. In 1966, she published her first major work. From 1976 untill the present, Ms. Hao has produced watercolour paintings, Chinese paintings and oil paintings. Some of her works have been included in the collections of the Tianjin Art Museum, the Chinese Art Gallery, and others.