Born in July 1917. A native of Wujiang, Jiangsu. Shanghai Light Industry College. In 1931, he went to Shanghai to study painting and later engaged in art design in Shanghai. From the 1930s to the late 1940s, he was engaged in advertising art design and was a famous advertising painter at that time. In 1951, he taught at the Shanghai Art College. In 1952, he served as the team leader of the New Year poster creation team at the Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House. In 1959, he was transferred to the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Culture to prepare for the establishment of the Shanghai Fine Arts College. After the school was completed in 1960, he served as the academic director, and later as the director of the Department of Arts and Crafts and the director of the Department of Traditional Chinese Painting. In 1978, he was transferred to Shanghai Light Industry College as director and professor of the Department of Decorative Art. Retired in 1987.
Ding Hao has been engaged in art creation and art design education for a long time, dabbling in Western painting, Chinese painting and other types of painting. In his later years, he devoted himself to the research of calligraphy and ink painting. Published academic papers "Calligraphy Art and Packaging Design", "Calligraphy Formal Beauty and Packaging Design", "Shanghai - the Cradle of Early Chinese Painters", etc. In December 1992, the "Ding Hao Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition" was held at the Shanghai Art Museum, displaying more than 140 personally created calligraphy, traditional Chinese landscape painting and sketch works. He has served as a member of the Chinese Artists Association, the first, second, third and fourth directors of the Shanghai Artists Association, a member of the Shanghai Calligraphers Association, a consultant to the Shanghai Advertising Association, a consultant to the Shanghai Watercolor Research Association, China Industrial Design Association and the Decoration Design Society. Consultants etc.